This astonished me even more, and I turned to the subject of poems: No one memorizes them anymore, as we used to! Whereupon Jake, with a sly smile, launched into Tennyson’s “Ulysses.” ...

Victorian poet Tennyson wrote 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' in 1854, so he's not around to answer my questions. But luckily Jane Weir is here with me to talk to you about her beautiful poem ...

Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the sky; And thro' the field the road runs by To many-tower'd Camelot; And up and down the people go, Gazing where the lilies blow ...

On New Year’s Day, or thereabouts, I have the habit of reading “Ring out wild bells,” the Tennyson poem, from In Memoriam. In my book, it’s not only a great New Year’s poem — it’s a ...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, died on 6th October 1892 at his home in Haslemere, Surrey. On 11th October the coffin was brought to Westminster Abbey and lay overnight in St Faith's chapel ...

Pearsall is currently completing two book projects. The first, Firing Lines: War Poetry and the Force of Form from Tennyson to Plath, studies intersections of measure and the martial from the Crimean ...