Alfred, Lord Tennyson
English poet, Poet Laureate, 1809–1892. 2 explained quotes.
Tennyson, grieving the sudden death of his closest friend, decides that the pain of losing someone is better than never having loved them. It was written about friendship and death, not a breakup.
Read the full explanation →The poet asks the New Year's bells to ring away the old year's grief, quarrels and injustice and to ring in kindness, truth and peace.
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About Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1850 until his death, the most popular poet of the Victorian age, and was made a baron in 1884.
His long elegy In Memoriam, written over seventeen years after the death of his closest friend, gave the language several lines still used about love and grief.
More lines by Tennyson
Short quotes checked against their sources.
- “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”Ulysses, 1842
- “Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.”The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854
- “Nature, red in tooth and claw”In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 56, 1850