Tennyson served as the United Kingdom’s poet laureate from 1850 to 1892, making him the “official poetic spokesman for the reign of Victoria,” according to the Poetry Foundation.

The poem by Lord Tennyson is often cited as sustaining the legendary status of the battle, but Mr Massie says the newspaper report came first - and it was this prose that inspired Tennyson's poetry.

BAFTA viewers were left outraged after Lord of the Rings actor Bernard Hill was omitted from the In Memoriam tribute. Jeff Goldblum, 72, performed As Time Goes By on the piano while stars ...

During the Bill’s third reading in the upper chamber on Wednesday, a cacophony of angry heckles broke out during a speech from former Royal Albert Hall president Lord Moynihan of Chelsea.

He was venerated as something of the sort among poets in his native country. Alfred, Lord Tennyson* would write that “I was fourteen when I heard of his death. It seemed an awful calamity; I remember ...

Tom Emanuel receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs ...

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