The Eagle Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Eagle BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS was an English Poet Laureate during Queen Victoria’s reign. He was one of the most popular British poets. Tennyson was born on 6 th August 1809 in Somersby England. Tennyson and his younger brothers were very happy in spending their times in writing poetry in their teens. They published the collection when Alfred was 17. He did his education at King Edward VI Grammar school and then entered Trinity College, Cambridge for his higher studies. His first solo collection of poems, “Poems Chiefly Lyrical was published in 1830. His early poetry was full of medievalism and powerful visual images. T...