Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . he Tennyson house, went to school at Louth,graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in1832, and became vicar of Grasby in took the name of Turner under the will ofa relation, and married a sister of the lady whowas to be his brother Alfreds wife. Besides hisshare in the Poems by T700 Brothers (1827) hewrote upwards of three hundred and forty sonnets,published in volumes in 1830, 1864
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . he Tennyson house, went to school at Louth,graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in1832, and became vicar of Grasby in took the name of Turner under the will ofa relation, and married a sister of the lady whowas to be his brother Alfreds wife. Besides hisshare in the Poems by T700 Brothers (1827) hewrote upwards of three hundred and forty sonnets,published in volumes in 1830, 1864, 1868, and 1873,and collected, with a Life by the second LordTennyson and an essay by Spedding, in Charless genius was not so robust asthat of his brothers, Coleridge had greeted thefirst sonnet series with warm commendation ; thesonneteers more famous brother, Lord Tennyson,unhesitatingly pronounced some of his sonnetsas amongst the finest in the language. And Pro-fessor Palgrave described them as idyllic, sincere,pathetic, and subtle, as sometimes verging onquaintness, and as covering in their pensiverange a vast number of motives from Englishcountry ways. 540 Lord Tennyson. Lord Teuuysou. Alfred Tennyson was born on the 6ih of August1809, at Somersby, Lincolnshire, in the rectory ofhis father, Dr Tennyson. He was one of a numer-ous house, being the fourth-born of twelve sonsand daughters, the eldest of whom died in two elder brothers, Frederick and Charles, werepoets of a high order, though never widely recog-nised (see above) ; but the poetic work of each ofthe three brotherswas not merelyquite original, butwas absolutely dis-tinct, bearing notthe faintest familylikeness to thatof the others inmanner or method. Alfred Tennysongives his ownaccount of his be-ginning to write :According to thebest of my recol-lection, when I wasabout eight yearsold I covered twosides of a slatewith Thomsonianblank verse inpraise of flowersfor my brotherCharles, who was
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