Poet Laureate. Born Lincolnshire. Wrote "Morte d'Arthur". Extremely popular and successful; a Victorian national treasure. But strange and not the cleanest person: when a friend suggested he should change his shirt, his response was ""Hm, yours would not be as clean as mine if you had worn it a fortnight." He also chose to sleep in the sheets in which his father had died. Turned down the offer of a baronetcy hoping for something better, and was rewarded with a peerage in 1883. Died at home at Aldworth, near Haslemere.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Alfred. Lord Tennyson - SW1
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809 - 1892, poet, lived here in 1880 and 1881. Englis...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Twickenham
Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809 - 1892, poet laureate, lived here.
Old Westminster Library - head 6 - Tennyson
Tennyson died October 1892, the same year that this building was 'erected' ac...
Wine Office Court
The Rhymers' Club is not specifically mentioned on the plaque but Ye Olde Che...
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1 memorial
Earl of Ellesmere, Francis Egerton
Politician, poet, founding trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951. Born 21 Arlington Street, Piccadilly. Died Bridgewater House, London. ...
Person, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Poetry, Politics & Administration
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George Seferis
Greek Ambassador 1957 - 62. Poet and Nobel laureate (literature, 1963). Born Smyrna. Died Athens.
2 memorials
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poet and Jesuit priest. Born 87 The Grove, Stratford, of Welsh ancestry. 1852 the family moved to Hampstead and GMH attended Highgate School where he flourished. At Oxford University he converted ...
4 memorials
Phillis Wheatley
American writer who was the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Her name can also be given as Phillis Wheatley Peters or Phyllis or Wheatly. Born in West Africa, she was s...
1 memorial