Alfred Tennyson

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gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:poet
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:Victorian_Era
gptkb:Victorian_literature
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Order_of_Merit
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
gptkbp:birth_date 1809-08-06
gptkbp:born August 6, 1809
gptkbp:burial_place gptkb:Westminster_Abbey
gptkbp:children gptkb:Hallam_Tennyson
gptkb:Lionel_Tennyson
gptkb:Gertrude_Tennyson
Gerald Tennyson
gptkbp:death_date 1892-10-06
gptkbp:died October 6, 1892
gptkbp:famous_for Lyric poetry
Narrative poetry
Dramatic monologues
Mythological references
Exploration of nature
Themes of love and loss
His use of meter and rhyme
gptkbp:famous_quote I am a part of all that I have met.
The brook flows on.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.
The Lady of Shalott.
' Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Idylls of the King.
In Memoriam.
Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown.
The Princess.
The charge of the Light Brigade.
The forward-looking poet.
The poet of loss.
The poet of love.
The poet of myth.
The poet of nature.
The poet of the people.
' Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown.'
' I am a part of all that I have met.'
' To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.'
' Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.'
gptkbp:founded gptkb:Tennyson_Society
gptkbp:genre Lyric poetry
Narrative poetry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Alfred Tennyson
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Robert_Browning
gptkb:T._S._Eliot
gptkb:W._H._Auden
gptkb:Thomas_Hardy
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Lord_Byron
gptkb:William_Wordsworth
gptkb:John_Keats
gptkbp:inspired_by gptkb:History
gptkb:Nature
gptkb:mythology
gptkbp:known_for gptkb:Social_issues
Themes of love and loss
Exploration of faith
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:British
gptkbp:notable_work gptkb:The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade
gptkb:Idylls_of_the_King
gptkb:In_Memoriam_A._H._H.
gptkb:The_Lady_of_Shalott
gptkbp:notable_works gptkb:The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade
gptkb:Idylls_of_the_King
gptkb:In_Memoriam_A._H._H.
gptkb:The_Lady_of_Shalott
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:poet
gptkbp:period gptkb:Victorian_era
gptkbp:place_of_birth gptkb:Somersby,_Lincolnshire,_England
gptkbp:place_of_death gptkb:Lurgashall,_West_Sussex,_England
gptkbp:poet_laurate gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:resting_place gptkb:Westminster_Abbey
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Emily_Sellwood
gptkbp:style gptkb:Romanticism
Victorian poetry
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:University_College,_Oxford
gptkb:Greenwood_Cemetery
gptkb:Green-Wood_Cemetery
gptkb:Alfred_Lord_Tennyson
gptkb:William_Blake
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4