A painting of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Richard Caton Woodville, 1894 The Charge of the Light Brigade was written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and published in 1854. Tennyson uses a regular ...

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 ...

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 ...

You would think so. I would think so. Apparently, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, did not. Maybe he wanted the line to go faster — more like “Ring-out-wild-bells.” Not sure. Anyway, this poem has ...

I developed this project into my first monograph, Tennyson's Name: Identity and Responsibility in the Poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Ashgate, 2008). My most recent publication, Nineteenth-Century ...