1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892) English poet. He was poet laureate 1850–92. His verse has a majestic, musical quality. His works include ‘The Lady of Shalott’, ‘The Lotus Eaters’, ‘Ulysses’, ‘Break, Break, Break’, ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’; the longer narratives Locksley Hall 1832 and Maud 1855; the elegy In Memoriam 1850; and a long series of poems on the Arthurian legends The Idylls of the King 1857–85.
Tennyson was born at Somersby, Lincolnshire. The death of A H Hallam (a close friend during his years at Cambridge) 1833 prompted the elegiac In Memoriam, unpublished until 1850, the year in which he succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate and married Emily Sellwood.

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