A biography for Alfredhasn’t been written yet.
“The Twickenham Museum - Alfred Lord Tennyson in Twickenham”
“Selected Poems at Poet Seers”
“Selected Poems at the University of Toronto”
“Biography & Works (public domain)”
“Brief biography at the Victorian Web”
“Web exhibit at the University of South Carolina”
“Brief biography at Kirjasto (Pegasos)”
“The Tennyson Page”
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“Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”
“Alfred Lord Tennyson's Poetry”
“Should Heaven send me any son, I hope he's not like Tennyson. I'd rather have him play a fiddle Than rise and bow and speak an idyll.”
“I don't suppose {{w|King Arthur|Arthur}} and his Cornish {{w|Knights of the Round Table|knights}} were as gentlemanly as Malorye made them, much less as genteel as Tennyson's heroes, epic shopwalkers in a well-decorated emporium of {{w|sentimentality}}.”
“Tennyson knew his magician's business.”
“[A]nswers to questions about ethical meaning cannot come from science. Tennyson... knew that the "good life"... required their successful integration. Tennyson called these two sources knowledge and reverence, personified as mind and soul. And he spoke of their union..."Let knowledge grow from more to moreBut more of reverence in us dwell;That mind and soul, according well,May make one music, as before."”
“Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die”
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
“Robin: No man who truly loves and truly rules His following but can keep his followers true. I am one with mine. Traitors are rarely bred Save under traitor kings.”
“Forget thee… Never— Till Nature, high and low, and great and small Forgets herself, and all her loves and hates Sink again into Chaos.”
“Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past: Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.”