Forster and Bertrand Russell among its members. As such, we can note that the Apostles also boasted such luminaries as E.M. 2.) He was a member of a secret society.Īs with many of our best secret societies, membership in the Cambridge Apostles is, these days, hardly a secret. Likewise, "Theirs not to reason why/Theirs but to do and die." As a matter of fact, Tennyson’s words are so often primed for the cultural zeitgeist that he remains the ninth most quoted person in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. It seems likely that most of those who insist that "'Tis better to have loved and lost/than never to have loved at all" are largely unaware that those lines came from Tennyson. 1.) He gave birth to some of our best clichés. Here are some interesting facts about him. By the time Eliot would have imbibed the delectable melancholia that so defines Tennyson’s best work, he would have been used to more and more poets doing their level best to sound an awful lot like Tennyson. No doubt he had a great sense of the way the English language was used, but he also had a tremendous hand in shaping its usage. Eliot’s remark that Tennyson had "the finest ear of any English poet since Milton" seems a bit backwards. Poems like "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "Crossing the Bar" have become so ingrained in the cultural consciousness that T.S. More information can be found at the and than a century after his death, Alfred, Lord Tennyson remains one of the Anglophone world’s most popular poets. Tennyson finally settled in in Farringford on the Isle of White with his wife Emily, but the Lincolnshire Wolds always remained in his heart and continued to be reflected in his much of his work.Īlfred, Lord Tennyson died on the 6th October 1892 at the grand age of 83. When Poet Laureate William Wordsworth died in 1850, Alfred was appointed in his place. Tennyson went on to live in various locations across the country and continued his love for writing poetry. Following the death of his father in 1831, Tennyson returned to Somersby to take responsibility for his family. Tennyson went on to be educated Trinity College, Cambridge where he met his dear friend Arthur Henry Hallam who was a huge influence in Alfred’s life. Jacksons paid Alfred and his brother Charles £20 for the copyright of the ‘Poems by Two Brothers’ and the brothers spent some of this money on hiring a carriage to ride to Mablethorpe, a favourite holiday destination, and shouted their poetry joyously to the sea. In April 1827, Tennyson had his first poems printed by Jacksons Booksellers and Printers in Louth (currently the Oxfam shop).
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Encouraged to be a free spirit by his mother, Alfred was often seen, book in hand, wandering in the local area at almost any time of day or night composing what would become some of the most recognisable, celebrated and quotable verse in the English language. By 1820, the family home had become crowded, with his parents, six brothers, four sisters and servants as well as various pets. The Tennyson children attended the local village school as well as being taught by their father, at the age of 7 years Tennyson was sent to Louth Grammar School where he spent 4 unhappy years before returning home to again be taught by his father. He was a remarkable man, who led a remarkable life.īorn in the village of Somersby in the Lincolnshire Wolds in 1809, Tennyson was the third surviving child of Reverend George Clayton and Elizabeth Tennyson. Follow in Tennyson’s footsteps on a trail through Lincolnshire learning about his life, love, heartbreak and verse and see the places which gave him so much inspiration.Īlfred, Lord Tennyson was the most successful poet of the Victorian era and his work is still read and loved by many today.
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