Alfred Tennyson vs. Jane Austen
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Alfred Tennyson
1809 – 1892
Politics
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu".
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"Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all."
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Jane Austen
1775 – 1817
Literature
United Kingdom
literary realism
Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist whose six major novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, critically and comically examined the lives and morals of the British landed gentry.
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"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
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