ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The best-known poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, included “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and “Crossing the Bar.” His longer works included In Memoriam, inspired by his grief over the untimely death of a friend, and Idylls of the King, based on Arthurian legend.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tennyson had his beginning in Romanticism; his poetry was replete with the Romantic norms: melancholy, nature, and dreams. It is clear that Byron and Coleridge and Keats suggested heavily in Tennyson’s early volumes, Shelley and Wordsworth also contributed to Tennyson’s formation of style.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tennyson was the grand old man of Victorian poetry, holding the Laureateship for 42 years and famous for In Memoriam A.H.H., The Idylls of The King and Maud, and Other Poems – the last of which includes ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’.

Detailed explanation-4: -Alfred Tennyson was created a hereditary baron, 1st Baron Tennyson. Barons are known by their title, Lord Tennyson, preceded if necessary by their Christian name. The same applies to current Life Barons, who are not created with hereditary titles.