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Alfred Tennyson (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Nationality: 
british
Gender: 
Male
Birth Date: 
1809
Birth Place: 
Somersby , Lincolnshire
Death Date: 
1892
Death Place: 
Aldworth
British poet;
"...back the maiden fell,/ Then gave a languid hand to each and lay", third of four images for Lancelot and Elaine and thirteenth plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of London, 1863)
"And bare her by main violence to the board/ And thrust the dish before her, crying , 'Eat!,",fourth of six images for Geraint and Enid and fourth plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of London
"And in ther hollow oak he lay as dead/ And lost to life and use and name and fame", fourth of four images for Merlin and Vivien and tenth plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of London, 1863)
"But Arthur spied the letter in her hand/ Stoopt, brake seal, and read it;",fourth of four images for Lancelot and Elaine and fourteenth plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of London, 1863)
"Draw'–and Lavaine drew and that other gave/ A marvellous great shriek and ghastly groan", firstof four images for Lancelot and Elaine and eleventh plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of Londo
"Embraced her with all welcome as a friend,"second of six images for Geraint and Enid and second plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of London, 1863)
"In a moment thought Geraint/ Here by God's name is the maid for me", first of six images for Geraint and Enid and first plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of London, 1863)
"O Merlin, tho' you do not love me, save, / Yet save me!", third of four images for Merlin and Vivien and ninth plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of London, 1863)
"O peaceful Sisterhood/ Receive, and yield me sanctuary;",first of two images for Guinevere and fifteenth plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of London, 1863)
"she knelt/ Full lowly by the corners of his bed,/ And laid the diamond in his open hand", second of four images for Lancelot and Elaine and twelfth plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of Lond
"She took the helm, and he the sail, the boat/ Drave with a sudden w ind across the deeps,"first of four images for Merlin and Vivien and seventh plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of London,
"Shore thro' the swarthy beck, and like a ball/ The russet-bearded head roll'd on the floor,",fifth of six images for Geraint and Enid and fifth plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of London,
"Then she stretch'd out her arms and cried aloud/ Oh Arthur"; second of two images for Guinevere and sixteenth plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of London, 1863)
"There lay she all her length and kiss'd his feet/ As if in deepest reverance and in love", second of four images for Merlin and Vivien and eighth plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of London
"Would some of your kind people take him up,/And bear him hence out of this cruel sun:", third of six images for Geraint and Enid and third plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of London, 1863)
..., he turn'd his face/ And kiss'd her climbing, and she cast her arms/ About him, and at once they rode away," sixth of six images for Geraint and Enid and sixth plate of a set of sixteen Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Ar
Idylls of the King (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, [1889])
Idylls of the King (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, [1889])
Illustrations of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King (London: Art-Union of London, 1863)
The Story of Merlin and Vivien (London: E. Moxon, Son, and Co., [ca. 1880])