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Alfred Tennyson

May 2023

  • The view towards Lincoln Cathedral from the Viking Way, near Walesby in the Lincolnshire Wolds.

    ‘As good as Yorkshire but without the tourists’: the pure poetry of Lincolnshire’s Tennyson country

    The Lincolnshire Wolds are marking their 5oth anniversary as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with events from hedge-laying to star gazing

September 2022

  • Queen Elizabeth receives Simon Armitage to present him with the Queen's gold medal for poetry upon his appointment as poet laureate during an audience at Buckingham Palace, London in May 2019

    Five men and one woman who took on impossible job – of poet laureate

    Several of the poets appointed by, or inherited by the Queen, had to deal with public mockery. No wonder Philip Larkin turned down the role

July 2022

  • ‘I would that my tongue could utter / The thoughts that arise in me’ … Alfred Tennyson.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Break, Break, Break by Alfred Tennyson

    A sharply anguished lament for the poet’s beloved friend and inspiration Arthur Hallam

December 2021

  • Moon over Christmas lights on Lake Trasimeno Lake in Castiglione del Lago, Italy.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 Christmas poems

    Poets from Thomas Hardy to TS Eliot and Wendy Cope articulate the wonder – and dread – of the festive season

April 2020

  • Film and Television<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock (1659460a) The Charge Of The Light Brigade, David Hemmings Film and Television

    My favourite film aged 12
    My favourite film aged 12: The Charge of the Light Brigade

    Tony Richardson’s epic was a razor-sharp skewering of Britishness that gave me a thrilling first taste of big-screen trauma

April 2019

  • Mark Francois

    There are dark stirrings in Brexiteers’ sudden fixation with poetry

    Edward Sugden
  • Zoe Williams

    Mark Francois reading Tennyson, and other reasons to keep politicians away from poetry

    Zoe Williams

July 2018

  • Damien Johnson as Orpheus and Sarah Kundi as Eurydice in Ballet Black’s production of Orpheus.s

    Top 10s
    From Catullus to Dylan Thomas: the top 10 elegies

    They date back to ancient times and remain a strong current in modern poetry. Here are some of the best

February 2016

  • Emily Dickinson

    Book of the day
    The sequel to Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: women, look upon these works and weep…

    Anthony Holden on the ‘female’ sequel to Poems That Make Grown Men Cry – the surprise bestselling anthology he put together with his son Ben

January 2015

  • Enjoy a pint in Alfred Lord Tennyson's local pub, The White Hart in Tetford.

    20 great country walks
    Great country walks: Tetford, Lincolnshire

    Stroll through the countryside that inspired former poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson

December 2014

  • Augustus Edwin Mulready's Remembering Joys That Have Passed Away

    London’s Guildhall reveals hidden gems among collection of 4,000 paintings

    Collection forgotten for 50 years after building bombed in Blitz reopens to the public in January after refurbishment

July 2014

  • War memorial

    Top 10s
    Top 10 war poems

    This week marks a century since the outbreak of the first world war. Chosen from 1,000 years of English writing about war, poet and Oxford professor Jon Stallworthy selects some of the best attempts to think through this most extreme of human experiences

  • Greenslade
    Drama in Crimea - historic dispatches from the father of war reporting

    Correspondent who made the charge of the light brigade famous

  • Sylvia Plath, ebooks

    Ebooks: the new reading
    Hear great poets of the past via the Poetry Archive

    Thanks to the recently relaunched Poetry Archive, you can listen to the likes of Tennyson and Sylvia Plath reading their own verse, writes Anna Baddeley

February 2014

  • Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka

    Top 10s
    The best fiction featuring real writers

    From Colm Tóibín to Italo Calvino, novelist Rachel Cantor describes her favourite encounters with authors who appear in other people's books

January 2014

  • Battle of Balaclava

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson

    Carol Rumens: Not a protest, but in no way a celebration of a disastrous historical event, it remains a compelling dramatisation of battle

December 2013

  • Detail from a 15th century nativity scene by Paolo Schiavo

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Christmas poems and stories – books podcast

    Simon Callow and Juliet Stevenson go searching for the meaning of Christmas in a selection of readings from the British Library

September 2013

  • Benjamin Britten

    Benjamin Britten honoured with first coin to feature poetry

    Composer's centenary is marked with a 50p coin inlaid with Tennyson's line that Britten set to music

November 2012

  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892).

    Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find by John Batchelor – review

    Alfred Tennyson's life has now been picked over enough. Better to revisit his greatest poem, says Rachel Cooke

July 2012

  • The story of British art
    Fateful journey: The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse

    Jonathan Jones: The pre-Raphaelite JW Waterhouse evokes the Arthurian age in this melancholic scene, painted in 1888, from Alfred Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott, showing the young woman journeying by boat to Camelot and certain death

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