Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson was born in 1809 in a rectory in Lincolnshire, the fourth of twelve children, in a family made difficult by his father's alcoholism and the fear of madness. The death at twenty-two of the friend he had met at Cambridge, in 1833, gave him his subject for seventeen years. Engaged around 1836, he broke off the engagement in 1840, ruined by a bad investment, and did not marry until 1850. Made Poet Laureate that same year, he was the most popular poet of his time, received a peerage in 1884 and died in 1892.

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• PoetryIn Memoriam A. H. H.Alfred Tennyson · 1850LiteraturePublic domain