A line from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem Ulysses will be engraved on a wall in the Olympic village to inspire athletes competing in the London 2012 Games. The last line of the poem – "To strive, to ...

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Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth Alfred, Lord Tennyson's birth, poet Sean O'Brien explores his great poem, Ulysses. Show more Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth Alfred, Lord Tennyson ...

Actor Colin McFarlane recites a passage from Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson in a bid to inspire Lincoln City ahead of the team's FA Cup clash with Arsenal on Saturday. The poem features the lines: ...

Do people still read poetry aloud? In old novels, set during Christmastime, the long winter evenings were often devoted to singing songs around the piano, telling ghost stories and reciting poems, ...

March 7 - Lines from the poem "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson will be engraved on to a wall in the Olympic Village to not only inspire athletes competing in 2012, but also future generations of ...

It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and ...

It's sometimes hard to believe how famous Tennyson once was. As Mick Imlah has it in his wry and plangent poem, In Memoriam Alfred Lord Tennyson: "No one remembers you at all." But in his day the ...