Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

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  Full Name: Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (FRS)
• Lived: August 6, 1809 – October 6, 1892
• Occupation: Poet
• Title: Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. Elevated to the peerage (Baron) in 1884.

Famous Works:

• "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical" (1830) - Includes "Claribel" and "Mariana"
• "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1855)
• "Idylls of the King" (1859) - Arthurian legends
• "Enoch Arden" (1864)

Legacy:

• Considered the chief representative of Victorian poetry
• Explored themes of faith, doubt, nature, and mortality
• His poems are still studied and admired today

Additional Points:

• His son, the second Baron, served as Governor-General of Australia.
• The barony continues today, held by the 6th Baron Tennyson.