A Victorian-era Poet Laureate of Great Britain, he remains one of England's best-known and most-quoted poets. His most famous poems include "The Lady of Shalott," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "Crossing the Bar," and "The Lotos-Eaters." He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles secret society at Trinity College, Cambridge in the late 1820s. He published his first work, a joint collection of his poetry and his brother's, in 1827.
