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1 day ago · In poetry Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat is a key text, but many works by Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning also show the influence of Orientalist tropes and ideas. In theater it is one of the constant strands of much popular drama and other forms of popular entertainment like panoramas and pageants, while travel writing from Charles Kingsley to Richard Burton, James Anthony Froude, and Mary Kingsley shows a wide variety of types of Orientalist figures and concepts, as do many works of ...
3 days ago · Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830.
5 days ago · Beyond the Lines: “The Lotos-Eaters” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Odysseus removing his men from the company of the lotus-eaters. In Book Nine, lines 84-105 of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus tells his host, King Alcinous of the Phaeacians, about a near-catastrophe in the land of the Lotos-Eaters. The inhabitants of this land eat a magical ...
3 days ago · In his poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” Tennyson glorifies the courage, bravery, and patriotism of soldiers who fight in wars. However, his depiction of the dangerous nature of war ...
3 days ago · This resource guides students through the first few stanzas of ‘The Lady of Shalott’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Pupils will look at the poem’s setting, and use it to inspire a piece of writing about a castle.
2 days ago · Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O, well for the fisherman's boy.
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2 days ago · The Dying Swan. I. The plain was grassy, wild and bare, Wide, wild, and open to the air, Which had built up everywhere. An under-roof of doleful gray. With an inner voice the river ran, Adown it floated a dying swan, And loudly did lament. It was the middle of the day. Ever the weary wind went on, And took the reed-tops as it went. II.
