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About The Author
Alfred Lord Tennyson was born in 1809 at Somersby, Lincolnshire, the sixth of eleven children of a clergyman. He went up to Cambridge in 1828 but did not obtain a degree. He never had any other occupation than poet. In 1850 he was created Poet Laureate and in 1883 he accepted a peerage. His first important book, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, was published in 1830, and was not a critical success, but his two volumes of Poems, 1842, which contain some of his finest work, established him as the leading poet of his generation. Nine years earlier his close friend Arthur Hallam had died and this event had a lasting influence on his life and writing.
In Memoriam, a series of lyrics and speculations on mortality in tribute to Hallam, appeared in 1850. This was followed in 1855 by Maud, judged by many to be as important as In Memoriam, and which J. R. Lowell described as ‘the antiphonal voice to In Memoriam’. The principal work of Tennyson’s later years, Idylls of the King, was composed in two creative spells (1856–9 and 1868–74). T. S. Eliot wrote of Tennyson: ‘He has three qualities which are seldom found together except in the greatest poets: abundance, variety and complete competence. He had the finest ear of any English poet since Milton.’ After a short illness Tennyson died in 1892 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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-T. S. Eliot
ISBN: 9780140424430
ISBN-10: 0140424431
Series: Penguin Classics
Published: 6th December 2007
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 432
Audience: General Adult
For Ages: 18+ years old
Publisher: Penguin UK
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 2.6 x 14.2 x 19.5
Weight (kg): 0.32
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