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and delicacy of language and completeness of expression. As a lyrist he has, perhaps, no superiors, and only two or three equals in English poetry, and even of humour he possessed no small share, as is shown in the Northern Farmer and in other pieces. When the volume, variety, finish, and duration of his work are considered, as well as the influence which he exercised on his time, a unique place must be assigned him among the poets of his country.

Summary.—born 1809, ed. Cambridge, Poems by Two Brothers 1827, Poems chiefly Lyrical 1830, his chief works Poems in two Volumes 1842, Princess 1847, In Memoriam 1850, Maud 1855, Idylls of the King 1869-72, Poet Laureate 1850, died 1892.

Life by his son (2 vols., 1897). There are also numerous books, biographical and critical, by, among others, W. E. Wace (1881), A. C. Benson, A. Lang, F. Harrison, Sir A. Lyell, C. F. G. Masterman (Tennyson as a Religious Teacher), Stopford Brooke, Waugh, etc.