Princess

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, was born on the 6th of August 1809 and was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and still remains a popular poet throughout the world. Much of his work is instantly recognisable and within a few words he distils perhaps the very essence of being English with such phrases as ', ''Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all' and 'Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die'. His poems vividly capture and enthral and amongst their number are 'Break, Break, Break', 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', 'Tears, Idle Tears' and 'Crossing the Bar'. He died, mourned by an entire Nation on the 6th of October, 1892. In this volume we bring you one of his longer poems The Princess. Rightly regarded as a classic even by his own immense standards.