. Little journeys to the homes of English authors. Alfred Tennyson . 58. ENNYSON began to write versevery young. He has told of go-ing when thirteen years of ageto visit his grandfather, and ofpresenting him a poem. The oldgentleman gave him half a Aguinea with the remark, Thisis the first money you ever madeby writing poetry, and take myword for it, it will be the last! When eighteen years of age, with his brother, Charles,he produced a thin book of thin have the opinion of Coleridge to the effect that theonly lines which have any merit in the book, are thosesigned C. T. £jk Charles
. Little journeys to the homes of English authors. Alfred Tennyson . 58. ENNYSON began to write versevery young. He has told of go-ing when thirteen years of ageto visit his grandfather, and ofpresenting him a poem. The oldgentleman gave him half a Aguinea with the remark, Thisis the first money you ever madeby writing poetry, and take myword for it, it will be the last! When eighteen years of age, with his brother, Charles,he produced a thin book of thin have the opinion of Coleridge to the effect that theonly lines which have any merit in the book, are thosesigned C. T. £jk Charles became a clergyman of markedability, married rich, and changed his name from Ten-nyson to Turner for economic and domestic afterward, when Alfred had become Poet Lau-reate, rumor has it, he thought of changing the Tur-ner back to Tennyson, but was unable to bring itabout -fl^ The only honor captured by Alfred at Cambridge wasa prize for his poem, Timbuctoo. The encourage-ment that this brought him, backed up by Arthur Hal-lams declaiming the piece in p
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