. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. JLFRED TENNYSON, the English poet,author of Enoch Arden, and otherpoems, was born at Somersby, Eng-land, in 1809. His mother was thedaughter
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. JLFRED TENNYSON, the English poet,author of Enoch Arden, and otherpoems, was born at Somersby, Eng-land, in 1809. His mother was thedaughter of a vicar, and his father,the Rev. George Clayton Tennyson,was the rector of Somersby and thevicar of Bennington and Grimsby. With such a parentage, it was verynatural that our future poet, whowas the third of twelve children,should have good schooling in hischildhood, and that he should after-wards have the advantage of a liberaleducation, which was accorded atTrinity college, where he gained the Chancellors medal for a poemin blank verse, entitled Timbuctoo. With his brother Charles,who was also a poet, and who became vicar at Grasby, he publisheda small volume of verses when he was eighteen years old, entitled Poems, by Two Brothers. Six years later, in 1833, appeareda volume of his poems, in which were The Lady of Shalott, The May Queen, A Dream of Fair Women, and The Lotos-Eaters. English Idyls, and Other Poems, in two volumes, whichappeare
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