In late-medieval England, the resolution of the Wars of the Roses in 1485 meant the establishment, with the House of Tudor, of something approaching a stable monarchy. Under Henry VII and his ...
On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sat in his chair at his writing table and began a poem. “I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old, familiar carols play, / and wild and sweet / ...
It was 1850 when Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) published “In Memoriam A.H.H.,” an elegy for his close college friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, who had died 17 years before, at the age of 22. Or ...
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