Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, (6 d'agost de 1809 – 6 d'octubre de 1892) va ser un poeta anglès de l'era victoriana.
Tennyson es basava en gran part en temes de la mitologia clàssica com el poema d'Ulisses. El van influir principalment William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton i John Keats.
Hi ha un gran nombre de frases de Tennyson que han passat a formar part de l'anglès quotidià incloent "Nature, red in tooth and claw", "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure", "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers", and "The old order changeth, yielding place to new".[1]
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Biografia [modifica]
Tennyson nasquè a Somersby, Lincolnshire[2]
Tennyson estudià al Trinity College de Cambridge a partir de 1827,[3] on s'uní a una societat secreta anomenada els Cambridge Apostles. A Cambridge Tennyson conegué i es feu amic d'Arthur Henry Hallam.
Algunes obres [modifica]
- De Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830):
- The Dying Swan
- The Kraken
- Mariana
- Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)
- De Poems (1833):
- The Lotos-Eaters
- The Lady of Shalott (1832, 1842) –
- The Palace of Art
- St. Simeon Stylites (1833)
- De Poems (1842):
- Locksley Hall
- Tithonus
- Vision of Sin
- The Two Voices (1834)
- "Ulysses" (1833)
- De The Princess; A Medley (1847)
- In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849)
- Ring Out, Wild Bells (1850)
- The Eagle (1851)
- The Sister's Shame[4]
- De Maud; A Monodrama (1855/1856)
- Maud
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854) – an early recording exists of Tennyson reading this.
- De Enoch Arden and Other Poems (1862/1864)
- Enoch Arden
- The Brook –
- Flower in the crannied wall (1869)
- The Window – Cicle de cançons amb Arthur Sullivan. (1871)
- Harold (1876) –
- Idylls of the King (composat el 1833–1874)
- Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)
- Crossing the Bar (1889)
- The Foresters – amb música d'Arthur Sullivan (1891)
- Kapiolani (pòstum)[5]
Referències [modifica]
- ↑ The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. 5th. Oxford University Press, 1999.
- ↑ Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Brief Biography, Glenn Everett, Associate Professor of English, University of Tennessee at Martin
- ↑ Tennyson, Alfred a Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- ↑ Poetryloverspage.com
- ↑ Alfred Lord Tennyson. Hallam Tennyson. The life and works of Alfred Lord Tennyson. 8. Macmillan, 1899, p. 261–263.
Enllaços externs [modifica]
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A Wikimedia Commons hi ha contingut multimèdia relatiu a: Alfred Tennyson |
- Tennyson's Grave, Westminster Abbey
- Poems by Alfred Tennyson
- Tennyson index entry at Poets' Corner
- Biography & Works (public domain)
- Online copy of Locksley Hall
- Selected Poems of A. Tennyson
- The Twickenham Museum – Alfred Lord Tennyson in Twickenham
- Farringford Holiday Cottages and Restaurant, Home of Tennyson, Isle of Wight
- Tennyson in Twickenham
- Obres de Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson al Projecte Gutenberg. (anglès)
- Complete Biography & Works
- Illustrations of Tennyson's poetry by the Dutch artist Anja Cazemier
- Settings of Alfred Tennyson's poetry in the Choral Public Domain Library
- The Louverture Project: Anacaona – poem by Alfred Tennyson – Poem about the Taíno queen.
- Selected Works at Poetry Index
- Sweet and Low
- Recording of Tennyson reciting "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
- Anonymous. Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day. Illustrated by Frederick Waddy. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873, p. 78–84 [Consulta: 6 gener 2011].
