Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Poem celebrating the heroic cavalry charge at Balaclava

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

English Victorian poet laureate whose In Memoriam A.H.H. is a profound elegy for his dead friend and a meditation on faith and doubt. Idylls of the King and Ulysses are also landmarks of Victorian verse.

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