“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
Poet Laureate for forty-two years and the most famous poet of his age. He wrote In Memoriam over seventeen years, after the death of his friend Arthur Hallam.
He made Victorian doubt sound like music, and gave public occasions their language.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 1842
An old hero refusing the only thing left to him: rest.