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Definition of Tennyson
1. Noun. Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892).
Definition of Tennyson
1. Proper noun. An English patronymic surname derived from a (etyl enm) variant of Dennis. ¹
2. Proper noun. Alfred Tennyson, English poet and playwright. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tennyson
Literary usage of Tennyson
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"As 'in its form, so in its spirit, the verse of Tennyson expresses a constant and
... The poetry of Tennyson is pervaded by a profound religious spirit. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"As in its form, so in its spirit, the verse of Tennyson expresses a constant and
... The poetry of Tennyson is pervaded by a profound religious spirit. ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1898)
"In February 1828 Tennyson (as also his brother Charles) matriculated at Trinity
... The powers of Tennyson now developed apace ; for, besides enjoying the ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"When the juvenile volume of Poems by Two Brothers (1827) was published, Tennyson
was still under the dominion of Byron. In the quiet Somersby rectory, ..."
5. Representative British Dramas, Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"ALFRED Tennyson (1809-1892) Tennyson was sixty-six years old when lie began ...
Irving and Macready not only stood sponsors for the dramas of Tennyson and ..."
6. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"The force of Tennyson was twofold : he did not yield his pre-eminence before any
... Tennyson, therefore, was a power of a static species: he was able, ..."
7. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Charles Tennyson Turner 1808-1879 Born, at Somersby, Lines., 1808. ... —WILTON,
RICHARD, 1879, In Memory of Charles Tennyson Turner, July 4. ..."
8. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"BOOK XI VICTORIAN LITERATURE CHAPTER I Tennyson AND BROWNING Tennyson: his early
work and its character — The volumes of 1842 — His later life and works— ..."
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