Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Explore 29 approved quotes attributed to Alfred Lord Tennyson.

About Alfred Lord Tennyson

Portrait of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Julia Margaret Cameron / Adam Cuerden · Public domain

British Poet Laureate · 1809 – 1892

Alfred Tennyson was Poet Laureate for forty-two years and the most widely read poet of Victorian Britain. In Memoriam, written over seventeen years after the sudden death of a close friend, is a long argument with grief and with the new geology that made the universe look indifferent. He also wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade and Ulysses. His most quoted lines are the consolations — which land harder when you know how long he took to earn them.

Known for: The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Lady of Shalott, Idylls of the King

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