Asked who was the greatest French poet of the 19th century, André Gide cruelly replied, “Victor Hugo, alas!” We might be tempted to say something similar of English poetry: “Tennyson, alas!” Whitman ...

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I was in high school when I first read Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s 1833 poem “Ulysses,” which chronicles the title character’s reflection on his years of travel, as recorded in Homer’s “Odyssey.” Though ...

It's not every day you get veteran actress Helen Mirren reading one of the greatest poetic works of the 19th century - and all because she wanted to make a late-night talk show host cry. So, does it ...

"You got me," Colbert said at the end of her reading of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses." By Katie Kilkenny Stephen Colbert couldn’t quell the waterworks when Dame Helen Mirren read him poetry by ...

A line from an Alfred Tennyson poem has been chosen to inspire athletes taking part in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield", from Ulysses, will ...

It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and ...