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Alfred Tennyson

アルフレッド・テニソン

Arufureddo Tenison

別名: Lord Tennyson / Alfred, Lord Tennyson / 1st Baron Tennyson

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1809-08-06 (Somersby, Lincolnshire, England)
死没
1892-10-06 (Lurgashall, Sussex, England) 83歳
国籍
United Kingdom, England
言語
English
宗教
Anglicanism 1810年受洗 洗礼名: Alfred
居住地歴
Somersby, Lincolnshire → Trinity College, Cambridge → Epping Forest → Farringford House, Isle of Wight → Aldworth, Sussex

経歴

職業
poet, Poet Laureate, Baron
活動期間
1827年〜1892年
所属
House of Lords, Royal Society
所属団体
Cambridge Apostles
影響を受けた人物
Lord Byron, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
影響を与えた人物
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, T. S. Eliot

学歴

King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth
General studies
期間: 1816-1820
卒業年: 1820
国: United Kingdom
Trinity College, Cambridge
Literature
期間: 1827-
国: United Kingdom
no degree

受賞歴

Chancellor's Gold Medal
1829
対象作品: Timbuktu
主催: University of Cambridge
結果: 受賞
Poet Laureate
1850
主催: British Monarchy
結果: 任命
Baron Tennyson
1884
主催: Queen Victoria
結果: 授与

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

In Memoriam A.H.H.

1850年 elegy

Long elegy commemorating the death of friend Arthur Henry Hallam, exploring faith, science, and loss.

lossfaith and doubtnature

Ulysses

1842年 dramatic monologue

Aging Ulysses yearns for new adventure.

adventureagingseeking

The Lady of Shalott

1832年 ballad

A cursed lady in a tower glimpses the outside world.

isolationcurseart vs reality
映像化・舞台化
  • [painting] The Lady of Shalott / John William Waterhouse (1888)

Idylls of the King

1859年 epic

Victorian retelling of Arthurian legend.

chivalrydecayidealism

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1854年 ballad

Depicts the Charge of the Light Brigade in Crimean War.

braveryfutility of war

全著作

  • Poems by Two Brothers
  • Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
  • Poems (1833)
  • The Princess
  • In Memoriam A.H.H.
  • Maud, and Other Poems
  • Idylls of the King

翻案

  • Multiple paintings of The Lady of Shalott

作品の翻訳

  • Numerous Japanese translations

作風・主題

文体
rich visual imagerymasterful rhythmuse of onomatopoeia and alliteration
頻出モチーフ
grief and melancholyclassical mythologynature

健康

  • depression
    生涯
    Influenced themes of sorrow in poetry

評価・遺産

Leading Victorian poet, longest-serving Poet Laureate, source of many English idioms.

記念館・博物館

  • Farringford House Freshwater, Isle of Wight 1853年開館
  • Tennyson Memorial Tennyson Down, Isle of Wight 1893年開館

資料所蔵先

  • Tennyson Research Centre, Lincoln Central Library

大衆文化への影響

  • Ulysses quoted in Skyfall (2012)

引用

  • 'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.
    出典: In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850年)
  • Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die.
    出典: The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854年)
  • To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
    出典: Ulysses (1842年)

豆知識

  • 9th most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
  • Last words: 'Oh that press will have me now!'
  • Tennyson Down on Isle of Wight named after him.