Alfred Tennyson - the famous poet of ,,Victorian" England, and the deepest representative of the ideas and values of this era. He was one of the 12 children of a Lincoshirian priest, and descendant of King Edward III of England.,,Idylls of the King" - one of the most famous works of Alfred Tennyson. The book is a collection of ballads about the adventures of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - the heroes of the world famous medieval knight epic. The collection aroused general enthusiasm and put Tennyson among the first-class English poets.