This astonished me even more, and I turned to the subject of poems: No one memorizes them anymore, as we used to! Whereupon Jake, with a sly smile, launched into Tennyson’s “Ulysses.” ...

Victorian poet Tennyson wrote 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' in 1854, so he's not around to answer my questions. But luckily Jane Weir is here with me to talk to you about her beautiful poem ...

DURING the last two or three years, we have often heard the lament that the Victorian era of poetry was closed; that with the death of Tennyson the last great voice had fallen silent; that only ...

Its main headline grabber was the spectacularly disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade, immortalised in poetry by Tennyson and in irony by an incredulous French general who commented ...