Tennyson

American  

[ten-uh-suhn] / ˈtɛn ə sən /

noun

1. Alfred, Lord 1st Baron, 1809–92, English poet: poet laureate 1850–92.

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Tennyson British  

/ ˌtɛnɪˈsəʊnɪən, ˈtɛnɪsən /

noun

1. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 1809–92, English poet; poet laureate (1850–92). His poems include The Lady of Shalott (1832), Morte d'Arthur (1842), the collection In Memoriam (1850), Maud (1855), and Idylls of the King (1859)

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Other Word Forms

• Tennysonian adjective

Example Sentences

Tennyson spent 17 years composing and revising the lyric sequence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

From a contemporary perspective, it seems likely that Tennyson was on the autistic spectrum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

The first is the remarkable development of the anxious, impecunious and socially awkward Tennyson into the most celebrated poet of late 19th-century England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Tennyson had joined the new brigade of bewhiskered Victorian sages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Ivanhoe, The Prince and the Pauper, and some poems by Kipling and Tennyson were among the things I read in school the first year in the special class.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers