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    The Princess is a serio-comic blank verse narrative poem, written by Alfred Tennyson, published in 1847. Tennyson was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom...
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    poems ultimately proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's...
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Princess (Tennyson poem) A character in Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida and Gilbert's earlier The Princess (play), both...
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  • The Princess may refer to: The Princess (Tennyson poem), an 1847 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Princess (Maykov poem), an 1878 poem by Maykov The...
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  • "The Kraken" is a sonnet by Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892) that describes the Kraken, a mythical creature. It was published in Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly...
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    poem by Alfred Tennyson, first published in 1837, revised in 1842, and retitled "St. Agnes' Eve" in 1857. The poem was first published in 1837 in The...
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  • for whom Tennyson's poem, In Memoriam A.H.H., was written. Emilia met Hallam through her brother, and they became engaged in 1832. However, the couple were...
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  • "Sweet and Low" is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Written in 1849, Tennyson sent two versions of the poem to Emily Sellwood in November, asking her to...
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  • early poem by Alfred Tennyson, first published in 1830. In the 1830 and 1842 editions the poem is in one long stanza, with a full stop in the 1830 edition...
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    "The Day-Dream" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson that was published in 1842. It was an expanded version of his 1830 poem "The Sleeping Beauty". It...
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    The Princess is a blank verse farcical play, in five scenes with music, by W. S. Gilbert which adapts and parodies Alfred Lord Tennyson's humorous 1847...
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    Sleeping Beauty (1830) and The Day-Dream (1842), two poems based on Sleeping Beauty by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The Rose and the Ring (1854), a satirical...
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  • Frederick Tennyson (5 June 1807 in Louth, Lincolnshire – 26 February 1898 in Kensington) was an English poet. Frederick Tennyson was the eldest son of...
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    conservative Victorian England. Princess Ida is based on a narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson called The Princess (1847), and Gilbert had written...
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    Tears, Idle Tears (category Poetry by Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
    lyric poem written in 1847 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), the Victorian-era English poet. Published as one of the "songs" in his The Princess (1847)...
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    The Miller's Daughter is a narrative poem by Alfred Tennyson, first printed in 1833 and significantly revised in 1842. The poem was first published in...
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    Emily Sarah Tennyson, Baroness Tennyson (née Sellwood; 9 July 1813 – 10 August 1896), known as Emily, Lady Tennyson, was the wife of the poet Alfred, Lord...
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  • other poems, an 1855 volume of poetry by English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Maud" (poem), title poem in the 1855 volume by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Maud...
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  • "The Ballad of Oriana" is an early poem by Alfred Tennyson, published in 1830, but not in 1833. According to critic John Churton Collins, "This fine ballad...
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  • the Crimson Petal" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson. It is like a sonnet in having fourteen iambic lines, but it is not rhymed (except that the word...
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  • in the video game Mass Effect 2 Oriana, subject of the poem by the same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Orianna Spearling, a character in the novel The Walls...
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    "Godiva" is a poem written in 1840 by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson when he was returning from Coventry to London, after his visit to Warwickshire in...
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    Blank verse (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    afterwards, Alfred, Lord Tennyson became particularly devoted to blank verse, using it for example in his long narrative poem "The Princess", as well as for one...
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    Lady Clare (category Poetry by Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
    narrative poem by Alfred Tennyson, first published in 1842. Lady Clare was first published in 1842. After 1851 no alterations were made. This poem was suggested...
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    5 August 2020. "The Royal Marriage", The Times ( 24 April 1880): 11. "Wettin 14". Included in Alfred Tennyson, Ballads and Other Poems (London: C.K. Paul...
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  • he was an elder brother of Alfred Tennyson; his friendship and the "heart union" with his brother is revealed in Poems by Two Brothers (1829). Another poet...
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    Camma (category Ancient princesses)
    setting to Ancient Egypt. Tennyson subsequently wrote the tragedy The Cup (1884), in which Camma is again a Galatian princess. The poem ‘Camma’ by Oscar Wilde...
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    Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfather...
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  • name's popularity in 19th-century England is associated with Alfred Tennyson's poem Maud. Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon (1074–1130), daughter of Waltheof...
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    Galahad (category Knights of the Round Table)
    move the trees, the copses nod, Wings flutter, voices hover clear “O just and faithful knight of God! Ride on! the prize is near.” Tennyson's poem follows...
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