| Lord, Alfred Tennyson
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-1892 Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, in the north of England on August 6, 1809. The Tennyson family included 12 children, 9 of whom lived to adulthood. Tennyson's father, George Tennyson, was a church rector. He was prone to fits of terrible depression and violence and would regularly terrorize his children, several of whom became severely neurotic. As a result, the Tennyson siblings were devoted to one another. George Tennyson eventually died of alcoholism. All the Tennyson children read and wrote poetry from an early age. In 1827, Tennyson and his older brothers Frederick and Charles published a book of poetry. Tennyson himself wrote more than half the verse it included. Although the book was not a financial success, it was a remarkable achievement: Tennyson was only 18 when he and his brothers published it and he had written much of the poetry that the book included when he was 15 and 16 years old. Tennyson's career was a long and productive one: he published important volumes of verse steadily throughout his lifetime, including Maud, and Other Poems (1854) and an epic based on the Arthurian legend, Idylls of the King (begun in 1859 and completed in 1885). In 1884, Queen Victoria made him a peer and he took his seat in the House of Lords as Baron Tennyson of Freshwater and Aldworth. He died at Aldworth House, Hazlemere, Surrey, on October 6, 1892. His poetry has gone through cycles of popularity and decline since then but he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest British poets of the nineteenth century. |
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