Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, with its galloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of this, though Rudyard Kipling had written a scathing reply, The Last of the Light Brigade, criticising the poverty in which many Light Brigade veterans found themselves in old age.

Well-known poets of the Edwardian era of the 1890s, such as Alfred Austin, Stephen Phillips, and William Watson, had been working very much in the shadow of Tennyson, producing weak imitations of the poetry of the Victorian era.

Tennyson had previously treated a similar subject in " The Lady of Shalott ", published in 1833 and revised in 1842 ; however that poem was based on the thirteenth century Italian novella Donna do Scalotta, and thus has little in common with Malory's version.

Bradley had two sons and five daughters ; of these children one son, Arthur Granville Bradley ( 1850 – 1943 ), and four daughters were writers, including Margaret Louisa Woods, Emily Tennyson Bradley ( married Alexander Murray Smith ), Lady Mabel Birchenough ( the wife of Sir Henry Birchenough, public servant and business man ) and Rose Marion Bradley.

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

He also had a house in London, and the couple spent a considerable amount of time there holding a weekly salon which was frequented by many of the leading literary and artistic figures of the day, including Robert Browning, Lord Tennyson, John Everett Millais and Henry James.

She developed a love of poetry at a young age, after discovering a poem by Tennyson on a scrap of newspaper that had been used to wrap a pat of butter ; this discovery was one of Siddall's inspirations to start writing her own poetry.

In 1847 he married Emily Augusta Andrews, daughter of Dr. Andrews of Camberwell, and by 1851 they had had two sons, Coventry ( born 1848 ) and Tennyson ( born 1850 ).

Huxley said that it died " of too much love "; Tennyson, " because after ten years of strenuous effort no one had succeeded in even defining metaphysics.

Among the friends he made in England was Tennyson, and Lord Leigh, being aware that Parkes had been born at Stoneleigh, invited him to stay at Stoneleigh Abbey.

Princess Ida is based on a narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson called The Princess ( 1847 ), and Gilbert had written a farcical musical play, based on the poem, in 1870.

( Hallam read a paper on ' Whether the poems of Shelley have an immoral tendency '; Tennyson was to speak on ' Ghosts ', but was so nervous that he tore up most of what he had written and threw it on the fire.

Tennyson said: " He would have been known, if he had lived, as a great man but not as a great poet ; he was as near perfection as mortal man could be.

This tiny woodland bird has had little other impact on literature, although it is the subject of Charles Tennyson Turner's short poem, " The Gold-crested Wren ", first published in 1868.

Like his famous father, Tennyson was an ardent imperialist, and in 1883 he had become a council member of the Imperial Federation League, a lobby group set up to support the imperialist ideas of the Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain.

Tennyson penned " Ulysses " after the death of his close Cambridge friend, the poet Arthur Henry Hallam ( 1811 – 1833 ), with whom Tennyson had a strong emotional bond.

His father had died in 1831, requiring Tennyson to return home and take responsibility for the family.

Tennyson shared his grief with his sister, Emily, who had been engaged to Hallam.

The first two Governors-General, Lord Hopetoun and Lord Tennyson, had served shortened terms and had had difficult relations with Australian ministers.

Geraint and Enid was reworked by Alfred, Lord Tennyson into the poems The Marriage of Geraint and Geraint and Enid, part of his Idylls of the King.

These trends inspired a 19th-century genre of medieval poetry that included Idylls of the King ( 1842 ) by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson and " The Sword of Kingship " ( 1866 ) by Thomas Westwood, which recast specifically modern themes in the medieval settings of Arthurian romance.

Wordsworth and Tennyson also wrote about their childhood reading of the tales in their poetry.

The King in Yellow is a collection of tales of the supernatural by Robert W. Chambers, named after a fictional play with the same title that recurs as a leitmotif through some of its stories and first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895.

Nineteenth century poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, described the sword in full Romantic detail in his poem " Morte d ' Arthur ", later rewritten as " The Passing of Arthur ", one of the Idylls of the King:

To A Friend and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a play The Foresters, or Robin Hood and Maid Marian, which was presented with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan in 1892.

They became strongly influenced by the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites, John Ruskin's essay " The Nature of Gothic " from the second volume of The Stones of Venice, Thomas Malory's Morte d ' Arthur and the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Sir Arthur Sullivan composed music for her arrival and Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote an ode in Alexandra's honour:

Gawain appears in Tennyson ’ s “ Passing of Arthur ” as a frivolous figure who is held in contempt by Sir Bedivere.

Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ; Poet Laureate from 1850 ) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom.

Tennyson based his retelling primarily on Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and the Mabinogion, but with many expansions, additions, and several adaptations, a notable example of which is the fate of Guinevere.

Tennyson based " Gareth and Lynette " on the fourth ( Caxton edition: seventh ) book of Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur.

* The Foresters Web Opera – Score by Sir Arthur Sullivan for a play by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, with additional music arranged by persons unknown.

The Hanbury Arms was visited by Tennyson who lodged there while he wrote his Morte d ' Arthur ( later incorporated into his Idylls of the King ).

Memorial Stained Glass Window to Arthur Smith depicts three angels and Sir Galahad, who is shown on foot leading a horse., Memorial Stairwell, Mackenzie Building, Royal Military College of Canada with a line from the poem ` Sir Galahad ` by Alfred Lord Tennyson “ My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure .”

** Emilia Tennyson, sister of Alfred Tennyson and fiancée of Arthur Hallam ( born 1811 )

Members included Tennyson, Gladstone, W. K. Clifford, W. G. Ward, John Morley, Cardinal Manning, Archbishop Thomson, T. H. Huxley, Arthur Balfour, Leslie Stephen, and Sir William Gull.

There he was drawn into a literary set, and became a member of the famous Apostles Club, which then included Alfred Lord Tennyson, Arthur Hallam, Richard Chenevix Trench, Joseph Williams Blakesley, and others.

In April 1833 he savagely criticised Poems, published the previous December by Alfred Tennyson – an attack which, coupled with the death of his friend Arthur Hallam, discouraged the aspiring poet from seeking to publish anything more for nine years.

Merlin advising King Arthur in Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Tennysons ' Idylls of the King, 1868

Perhaps the first English song cycle was Arthur Sullivan's The Window ; or, The Song of the Wrens ( 1871 ), to a text of eleven poems by Tennyson.

Arthur Henry Hallam ( 1 February 1811 – 15 September 1833 ) was an English poet, best known as the subject of a major work, In Memoriam A. H. H., by his best friend and fellow poet, Alfred Tennyson.

Emilia Tennyson also named her elder son, Arthur Henry Hallam, in his honour.