Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth and Freshwater
Born	August 6, 1809 • England
Died	October 6, 1892 (aged 83) • England
Title / Office	poet laureate (1850-1892)
Notable Works	“Becket” • “Crossing the Bar” • “Demeter and Other Poems” • “Enoch Arden” • “Harold” • “Idylls of the King” • “In Memoriam” • “Locksley Hall” • “Mariana” • “Maud and Other Poems” • “Maud” • “Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington” • “Poems, Chiefly Lyrical” • “Poems by Two Brothers” • “Queen Mary” • “The Charge of the Light Brigade” • “The Devil and the Lady” • “The Foresters” • “The Lady of Shalott” • “The Lotos-Eaters” • “The Nineteenth Century” • “The Princess” • “The Promise of May” • “Tiresias and Other Poems” • “Ulysses”