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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature (Volume 22); A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the ... the Best Features of Many Celebrated - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... TENNYSON, Alfred (became Baron Tennyson of Aldworth in 1883), a celebrated English poet, born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, August 6, 1809; died at Aldworth House, near Haslemere, Surrey, October 6, 1892. The family seems originally to have been Danish. The father of Alfred was the Rev. George Clayton Tennyson, LL.D., the rector of Somersby, a man of high accomplishments and strong character. The poet's home influences were remarkably well fitted for directing his mind toward literature, for though Somersby was a secluded hamlet that but rarely heard the "murmur of the world," not even the news of the Battle of Waterloo penetrating its isolation till long after the occurrence, yet the classic English authors were a household word in the family, and the father gave to his children's training the most watchful and helpful care. At seven Alfred was sent to the grammar school at Louth, where he was harshly treated. At eight he wrote his first verses, modelled on Thomson's Seasons. His elder brother Charles pronounced them excellent. Later his grandfather gave him a coin for writing an elegy on his grandmother, saying, as he scanned the verses: "Here is halfa-guinea for you, the first you have ever earned by poetry, and take my word for it, the last." This did not discourage him, however, and he used most of his leisure time writing verse, producing, between the age of twelve and thirteen an epic, on the Walter Scott model, of some 6,000 lines (now lost), and at fourteen a blankverse drama. In March, 1827, Poems by Two Brothers appeared, confessedly written by Charles and Alfred, though it is now known that the eldest brother Frederick also had a hand in the composition. On February 28, 1828, Alfred and Charles matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where Fr...
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