A Rhyme A Dozen ― Death: 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic
Written by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rainer Maria Rilke and Sarojini Naidu
Narrated by Richard Mitchley
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1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Death - An Introduction
2 - Death Be Not Proud by John Donne
3 - Death by Rainer Maria Rilke
4 - Elegy Before Death by Edna St Vincent Millay
5 - The Poet to Death by Sarojini Naidu
6 - After Death by Fanny Parnell
7 - Death by John Clare
8 - Go Down Death by James Weldon Johnson
9 - Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson
10 - Such Such Is Death by Charles Sorley
11 - I Would Fain Die a Dry Death by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
12 - A Death Bed by Rudyard Kipling
13 - The Death of the First Born by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was a British poet. Born into a middle-class family in Somersby, England, Tennyson began writing poems with his brothers as a teenager. In 1827, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, joining a secret society known as the Cambridge Apostles and publishing his first book of poems, a collection of juvenile verse written by Tennyson and his brother Charles. He was awarded the Chancellor’s Gold Medal in 1829 for his poem “Timbuktu” and, in 1830, published Poems Chiefly Lyrical, his debut individual collection. Following the death of his father in 1831, Tennyson withdrew from Cambridge to care for his family. His second volume of poems, The Lady of Shalott (1833), was a critical and commercial failure that put his career on hold for the next decade. That same year, Tennyson’s friend Arthur Hallam died from a stroke while on holiday in Vienna, an event that shook the young poet and formed the inspiration for his masterpiece, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850). The poem, a long sequence of elegiac lyrics exploring themes of loss and mourning, helped secure Tennyson the position of Poet Laureate, to which he was appointed in 1850 following the death of William Wordsworth. Tennyson would hold the position until the end of his life, making his the longest tenure in British history. With most of his best work behind him, Tennyson continued to write and publish poems, many of which adhered to the requirements of his position by focusing on political and historical themes relevant to the British royal family and peerage. An important bridge between Romanticism and the Pre-Raphaelites, Tennyson remains one of Britain’s most popular and influential poets.
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