TESTAMENT: We're talking about 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson and 'Poppies' by Jane Weir. Victorian poet Tennyson wrote 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' in 1854 ...

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.” ...

Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the sky; And thro' the field the road runs by To many-tower'd Camelot; And up and down the people go, Gazing where the lilies blow ...

My PhD (at the University of Glasgow) addressed these questions via a study of the names and acts of naming in Tennyson's poetry. I developed this project into my first monograph, Tennyson's Name: ...

But love of baseball is not the reason this column celebrates Marianne Moore. She was a Big Leaguer of modernist poetry.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, died on 6th October 1892 at his home in Haslemere, Surrey. On 11th October the coffin was brought to Westminster Abbey and lay overnight in St Faith's chapel ...