Which poet famously wrote 'Tis better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all'?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson of a stroke at the age of 22. Tennyson also wrote some notable blank verse including "Idylls of the King", "Ulysses", and "Tithonus". During his career, Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success. A number of phrases from Tennyson's work have become commonplaces of the English language, including "Nature, red in tooth and claw" ("In Memoriam A.H.H."), "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure",
You Have Been Loved – dedicated to his late mother and lover and "all the other people who have been lost since this song was written" (in 1996) – are unusually moving." As it was on release at the time, "You Have Been Loved" received much airplay in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales in which the lyrics were implied to refer to her, even though it had been released as an album track well over a year beforehand. You Have Been Loved "You Have Been Loved" (George Michael and David Austin) / "The Strangest Thing '97" (George Michael) is a double A-side single