Alfred Tennyson
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Tony Richardson’s epic was a razor-sharp skewering of Britishness that gave me a thrilling first taste of big-screen trauma
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They date back to ancient times and remain a strong current in modern poetry. Here are some of the best
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Anthony Holden on the ‘female’ sequel to Poems That Make Grown Men Cry – the surprise bestselling anthology he put together with his son Ben
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Stroll through the countryside that inspired former poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Collection forgotten for 50 years after building bombed in Blitz reopens to the public in January after refurbishment
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This week marks a century since the outbreak of the first world war. Chosen from 1,000 years of English writing about war, poet and Oxford professor Jon Stallworthy selects some of the best attempts to think through this most extreme of human experiences
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From Colm Tóibín to Italo Calvino, novelist Rachel Cantor describes her favourite encounters with authors who appear in other people's books
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Carol Rumens's poem of the week Poem of the week: The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson
Carol Rumens: Not a protest, but in no way a celebration of a disastrous historical event, it remains a compelling dramatisation of battle
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Simon Callow and Juliet Stevenson go searching for the meaning of Christmas in a selection of readings from the British Library
Podcast
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Composer's centenary is marked with a 50p coin inlaid with Tennyson's line that Britten set to music
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Alfred Tennyson's life has now been picked over enough. Better to revisit his greatest poem, says Rachel Cooke
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Jonathan Jones: The pre-Raphaelite JW Waterhouse evokes the Arthurian age in this melancholic scene, painted in 1888, from Alfred Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott, showing the young woman journeying by boat to Camelot and certain death
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Take a look at the poems from Carol Ann Duffy, Jo Shapcott, Alfred Tennyson and others which Winning Words have woven into the fabric of the Olympic Park
Gallery
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Fossils turn up in all sorts of places, from 18th-century satire to modern historical fiction
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From Camelot to a dismal pub in 2021, John Mullan relives the most notable New Years in literature. What has he missed?
Top 10s Top 10 Christmas poems