Lord Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, (6 d'agost de 1809 – 6 d'octubre de 1892) va ser un poeta anglès de l'era victoriana. Tennyson es basava en gran part en temes de la mitologia clàssica com el poema d'Ulisses. El van influir principalment William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton i John Keats. Hi ha un gran nombre de frases de Tennyson que han passat a formar part de l'anglès quotidià incloent-hi "Nature, red in tooth and claw", "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure", "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers", and "The old order changeth, yielding place to new".