The Poet Laureate Charles De Lacy British rock group The Animals

British rock group The Animals pictured in Bath as they celebtate their song House of the Rising Sun reaching Number One in the UK charts

The allegorical story in Comus centres on a virtuous lady who becomes separated from her two brothers while traveling in the woods

Cabinet head and shoulders studio portrait of Gladstone

frightened citizens are fleeing from a bull

The Poet Laureate Charles De Lacy British rock group The Animals'The Poet Laureate', 1871. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 1892), English poet. One of the most popular English poets, he succeeded William Wordsworth as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1850 and held the position until his death. In 1884, Queen Victoria, who was an admirer of Tennyson's work, made him a baron. A print from Vanity Fair, 22 July 1871.