On New Year’s Day, or thereabouts, I have the habit of reading “Ring out wild bells,” the Tennyson poem, from In Memoriam ... Apparently, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, did not.

Like most writers’ handwritten drafts, the papers of Alfred Tennyson—the 19th-century English poet known for nuggets such as, ...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate ... the fourth of many children of the Reverend Dr George Tennyson and Elizabeth (Fytche). He was educated at Louth and Trinity College, Cambridge. In Memoriam was ...

In Memoriam's poetic cry for God. In one of Victorian Britain's most popular poems, Alfred Lord Tennyson envisions a world in which natural laws, rather than God, govern life on Earth. He is ...