| English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, born this day in 1809, was often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian Age in poetry. By midcentury he was considered the national poet of Britain, on the strength of such works as Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (1852) and his famous poem about the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava, published in 1855 in Maud and Other Poems. He was raised to the peerage in 1884. |