Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born on August 5, 1809 in Somersby,
Lincolnshire. His father, George Clayton Tennyson, a clergyman and rector,
suffered from depression and was notoriously absentminded. Alfred began to write
poetry at an early age in the style of Lord Byron. After spending four unhappy
years in school he was tutored at home. Tennyson then studied at Trinity
College, Cambridge, where he joined the literary club 'The Apostles' and met
Arthur Hallam, who became his closest friend. Tennyson published Poems, Chiefly
Lyrical, in 1830, which included the popular "Mariana".
His next book, Poems (1833), received unfavorable reviews, and Tennyson ceased to publish for
nearly ten years. Hallam died suddenly on the same year in Vienna. It was a
heavy blow to Tennyson. He began to write "In Memoriam", an elegy for his lost
friend - the work took seventeen years. "The Lady of Shalott", "The
Lotus-eaters" "Morte d'Arthur" and "Ulysses" appeared in 1842 in the two-volume
Poems and established his reputation as a writer.
After marrying Emily Sellwood, whom he had already met in 1836, the couple
settled in Farringford, a house in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight in 1853. From
there the family moved in 1869 to Aldworth, Surrey. During these later years he
produced some of his best poems.
Among Tennyson's major poetic achievements is the elegy mourning the death of
his friend Arthur Hallam, "In Memoriam" (1850). The patriotic poem "Charge of
the Light Brigade", published in Maud (1855), is one of Tennyson's best known
works, although at first "Maud" was found obscure or morbid by critics ranging
from George Eliot to Gladstone. Enoch Arden (1864) was based on a true story
of a sailor thought drowned at sea who returned home after several years to find
that his wife had remarried. Idylls Of The King (1859-1885) dealt with
the Arthurian theme.
In the 1870s Tennyson wrote several plays, among them the poetic dramas
Queen Mary (1875) and Harold (1876). In 1884 he was created a
baron.
Tennyson died at Aldwort on October 6, 1892 and was buried in the Poets'
Corner in Westminster Abbey.
http://www.online-literature.com/tennyson/
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born on August 5, 1809 in Somersby,
Lincolnshire. His father, George Clayton Tennyson, a clergyman and rector,
suffered from depression and was notoriously absentminded. Alfred began to write
poetry at an early age in the style of Lord Byron. After spending four unhappy
years in school he was tutored at home. Tennyson then studied at Trinity
College, Cambridge, where he joined the literary club 'The Apostles' and met
Arthur Hallam, who became his closest friend. Tennyson published Poems, Chiefly
Lyrical, in 1830, which included the popular "Mariana".
His next book, Poems (1833), received unfavorable reviews, and Tennyson ceased to publish for
nearly ten years. Hallam died suddenly on the same year in Vienna. It was a
heavy blow to Tennyson. He began to write "In Memoriam", an elegy for his lost
friend - the work took seventeen years. "The Lady of Shalott", "The
Lotus-eaters" "Morte d'Arthur" and "Ulysses" appeared in 1842 in the two-volume
Poems and established his reputation as a writer.
After marrying Emily Sellwood, whom he had already met in 1836, the couple
settled in Farringford, a house in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight in 1853. From
there the family moved in 1869 to Aldworth, Surrey. During these later years he
produced some of his best poems.
Among Tennyson's major poetic achievements is the elegy mourning the death of
his friend Arthur Hallam, "In Memoriam" (1850). The patriotic poem "Charge of
the Light Brigade", published in Maud (1855), is one of Tennyson's best known
works, although at first "Maud" was found obscure or morbid by critics ranging
from George Eliot to Gladstone. Enoch Arden (1864) was based on a true story
of a sailor thought drowned at sea who returned home after several years to find
that his wife had remarried. Idylls Of The King (1859-1885) dealt with
the Arthurian theme.
In the 1870s Tennyson wrote several plays, among them the poetic dramas
Queen Mary (1875) and Harold (1876). In 1884 he was created a
baron.
Tennyson died at Aldwort on October 6, 1892 and was buried in the Poets'
Corner in Westminster Abbey.
http://www.online-literature.com/tennyson/