Show alfried ALF RED TENNYSON bayona geyon cl doubt tho the greatest lish poet of our day ills ILS tind collego college days somo some of ills ilia mori dore eanious works AU all the world ills unexpected demise alfred tennyson was bom at sorn som ersby arsby lincolnshire Lincoln shire england nis father rev george clayton tennyson N as tile the rector 0 of f somersby Somers by and vicar of and grimsby while his mother was the daughter of rev stephen aytche vicar of louth lie ile third of of twelve aas as the a family eh children ildren the talent which gained for turn the title of poet lau laureate reato of england I 1 began to develop itself in hi his early youth for when eipl eighteen iteen years year old ho vitti ian his brother charles who afterward became 1 vicar of grasby gra ay iy and asur assumed ned 0 the name of turner published j 1 small volume entitled poems by two brothers 11 the poems poem attracted some come attention It ta those hose signe signed d A T receiving the I 1 highest praise coleridge declaring that they alone of the selections in the volume gave hopeful promise pro inise of a coining poet the earlier training of alfred and charles was waa assumed by tho the father tater later alfred was sent to trinity col l cambridge whore where in 1829 1820 lie ho was carded the chancellors modal for the roem poem in blank verse vense entitled iahn tim ll 11 A year later he published his first alurac of poems chiefly cyri ell cil I 1 manana was the only famous rem i this volume but in in ri a rev isel nil edition L is issued aed in f frield t the A 0 may imay queen the loties flotus eater latar the laly lady of Sha lott 11 A dream of pair V oi cn anone 1 Ln non one q an aal I 1 c f thata that I 1 arc ret till well vell kno known but this comparato ely y j 41 attention fUen tion and bothi nothing n V but fugitive abts from hi hii pen appeared pearel ap peare I 1 until 16 19 when he published english ld idlis ah and ald ethl r an A a A ya 4 0 r V 1 I iJ 16 I 1 ci j 4 J ta 4 J I if 4 k 1 0 a r I 1 1 1 P fv J jil av ka I 1 1 l VI 4 f va k 41 ft ar 1 ll 11 fit 1111 1 11 i I 1 I 1 P boeti oe n ite he preserved in this new volume all that he cared to have live of lis las in earlier publications and included in them some cf the works ahl chich h gave ave him place in the first rauk rank of i living poets P notably the day dream bream ulysses lock Locks lockley ley lcy nail hall st the two voices the talking oak 11 and mort darthur 11 one of his next nent great reat efforts was the princess a medley ju iu blank verse with its theme the proper ki pher phera a of women publia cd in 1847 in 1850 there appeared appe arad anonymously what hat was probably the purest and truest poem of that period Tenny sons in memoriam a series of 11 1 1 19 brief poems all Wrought together in grand pathetic tribute to the m mory of the poets college friend and companion arthur ilal hal who died in vienna in 1833 hallam was a son of alic son of hallam the historian and was vas engaged to marry Tenny sons sister a fact not known generally until many years later for S seventeen years tennyson had borne the sacred grief of his hib friends d death cath during which time he composed the ele gics contained in the volume in memoriam 11 november 21 1 1850 tennyson was appointed to tho the honorary place of poet laureate of england succeeding words word 1 orth of the poems written in that apauty capacity apa ity there have been few that have boor considered by critics as works aich are to tz take alce rank with others of ins poems notably the odo ode on the death of tho the dulce duko of wellington and the charge of tho the light brigade at dal balaklava al clava 11 both of these were included in liis his volume entitled maud and other poems published in 1855 maud was described as being so anomalous both in narrative treatment and metrical construction that critics critic and readers were widely at variance concerning it whatever adverse criticism might have been evoked over maud amaud was avs lost sight of and forgotten through the universally applauded idyls idels of the king four stories in blank verso verse published in 1859 under the titles enid vivien elaine and guinevere drawn from the legends of kin king arthur the creating of tennyson a peer was not conducive to lowering liis his dignity an and d reducing his vanity ile he was created a peer by queen victoria early in ISSI 1881 in consideration of his distinguished services march 11 of that year lie he took liis his seat in the house of lords tennyson turned his attention toward the dramatic art first in 1870 when lie he wrote the window or the songs of the wrens which was set to all music sic by sir arthur sullivan in 1875 lie he wrote queen mary a drama and his 1 last st effort in the dramatic line was the fore foresters aiters which was first presented in london a few months ago the resi residence denee of lord tennyson has been on the isle of wight for several years year nefa freshwater gate he owned there a commodious stone house v ith a pleas int library where here lie he spent the most of his hours of literary work surrounded rounded ur by his books until ISA 1851 lie he had lived in various various places principally in london but in that bear ear lie he was as married to emily 17 daughter 0 of henry Sol sellwood lwood and his regonal to the isle of wight INi glit followed almost immediately lie ile owned a home in hampshire another in aldworth Has haslemere lemere surrey and a fourth in m loudon london |