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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892) 阿尔弗雷德·丁尼生爵士 I. General Comment  poet the most important poet of the Victorian age brought poetry nearer to the national life than it had been since Shakespeare 把诗歌带到自莎士比亚以来最贴近民众生活的地方 浪漫主义诗坛上空的明星一个个坠落后，重新出现在英国诗坛上空的第一颗明星 II. Life the 4th son of a clergy in Somersby, a village in Lincolnshire ( the love of literature prevailed among the children of his family and they wrote stories and poems very early （从小就有诗才，7岁开始写诗，18岁和哥哥合作出版了诗集） his youthful hero was Byron, when 15, Byron died. Hearing the news, he thought the whole world was at an end. He walked our alone, carved the heart-broken epitaph: “Byron is dead” on a rock 1828, Cambridge, join a group of gifted students, encouraged by them to devote his life to poetry published poems while an undergraduate at Cambridge / 无韵诗Timbuctoo曾获校长金质奖章 1830, 诗集Poems Chiefly Lyrical 是英国文学史上维多利亚时代的开端 1831, called home by the illness and death of his father criticized severely, suffered acutely from this hostile criticism, but not discouraged, for 10 years, studied hard, model: Wordsworth and Keats 1842, Poems, in 2 volumes, which took the critics and the world by storm / the ranger and variety of work was remarkable / a success and established his position as a poet, since then, became more and more popular 1847, The Princess 的发表使他一举成名 1850, poet-laureate after Wordsworth 1850, married his sweetheart Emily Sellwood, with whom he had fallen in love in 1836 when he was too poor to get married his later years were passed in comfort and quiet seclusion 1884, was made a peer and since then, was called Lord Tennyson 1889, Crossing the Bar 1892, died and was buried in Westminster Abbey III. Works 1842, Poems, a success and established his position as a poet, then became more and more popular 第131首的组诗《悼念》被视为“英国文学史上最优秀的哀歌之一” 诗作题材广泛，想象丰富，形式完美，辞藻绮丽，音调铿锵 其作品，尤其是晚期作品，呈现出保守的政治倾向，为宫廷歌功颂德，粉饰太平，他被说成是“有时把一只眼睛瞅着读者，而当了桂冠诗人之后又把双眼瞅着女王”，因此颇受指责。但20世纪的评论家们对他作了重新评价，其诗作也再一次受到读者的欣赏 Crossing the Bar 《渡沙洲》