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A poem by this British poet laureate ends, "I hope to see my pilot face to face when I have crossed the bar" |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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$1,600 |
DJ |
A POETIC CATEGORY |
2016-10-13 |
#7379 |
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My big number is 600 / Somehow I rhymed it with "blunder'd" / As a rhyme, not very cool / But they teach my stuff in school! |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
DD
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$1,600 |
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BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS |
2015-02-06 |
#7000 |
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Made a baron in the early 1880s, he was the first Englishman elevated to that rank for literary work alone |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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FJ |
POETS |
2001-04-17 |
#3837 |
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"Into the valley of death rode the six hundred" |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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$1,000 |
DJ |
NAME THE POET |
2001-04-05 |
#3829 |
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"The Coming of Arthur" & "Gareth and Lynette" are parts of his "Idylls of the King" |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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$200 |
DJ |
POETS & POETRY |
2000-04-17 |
#3606 |
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Between 1842 & 1885, he repeatedly revised his "Idylls of the King" |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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$400 |
DJ |
POETS |
1996-12-06 |
#2825 |
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Prince Albert sent his copy of "Idylls Of The King" to this poet & asked him to autograph it |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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$400 |
DJ |
BRITISH POETS & POETRY |
1996-04-04 |
#2679 |
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This lord's 1879 poem "The Defence of Lucknow" concerns the Sepoy Rebellion |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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$300 |
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POETS & POETRY |
1995-11-17 |
#2580 |
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In 1883 Queen Victoria gave this poet laureate the title "Baron of Aldworth & Freshwater" |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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$3,500 |
DJ |
BRITISH POETS |
1993-11-18 |
#2119 |
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This baron was England's poet laureate from 1850 to 1892, longer than anyone else |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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FJ |
POETS |
1991-07-19 |
#1605 |
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He also wrote "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade" |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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$600 |
DJ |
ENGLISH POETRY |
1986-10-13 |
#481 |