Lord Alfred Tennyson holds a poetic record. He was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland for the longest period.
In 1850, he succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate, and remained so for 42 years until his death. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s rule.
Lord Byron was a major influence on Lord Tennyson. ‘Break, Break, Break’, ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, ‘Tears, Idle Tears’, and ‘Crossing the Bar’, are brilliant short lyrics written by Tennyson. ‘Idylls of the King’, ‘Ulysses’, and ‘Tithonus’, penned by Tennyson are prime examples of blank verse.
In 1832 Tennyson published another volume of his poems including ‘The Lotos-Eaters’, ‘The Palace of Art’, and ‘The Lady of Shalott’. ‘The Lady of Shalott’, is an evergreen poem penned by Tennyson. However, Tennyson’s plays were failures. In 1847, he published ‘The Princess: A Medley’, a popular satire on women’s education. ‘In Memoriam A.H.H.’, published in 1850, is the magnum opus of Lord Alfred Tennyson. Lord Tennyson passed away in 1892.