Empty House Author:Algernon Blackwood Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 ? 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular English poets. Tennyson wrote a number of phrases that have become commonplaces of the English language, including: 'nature, red in tooth and claw', 'better to have loved and lost', 'Theirs not to reaso... more »n why, / Theirs but to do and die', and 'My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure'. He is the second most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare. After William Wordsworth's death in 1850, Tennyson succeeded to the position of Poet Laureate, which he held until his own death in 1892. - Wikipedia« less