2-361-807 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British poet, 1855 (1956). Tennyson (1809-1892) succeeded William Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850. He is pictured here reading his poem Maud, regarded by many as his greatest work, published in 1855. From the City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.