Show Tenny tennyson Tenn yeon sons karly boenis tennyson was w as only eight years old when he be covered both sides of 0 his brothers slate with a poem on flowers flou ers done in unimpeachable pea chable meter his ilis brother had bad said to him see it if you can write poetry and when w ben ho lie read the verse veme on the slate he merely said youve e done it between the ages of eleven and twelve the young poet wrote an epic of over lines nes in scotta scotts mingled with heroics these were the only finished poems of Tenny sons boyhood but when w hen about fourteen or fifteen years old he commenced a drama in iambic meter which still survives thus he be practiced himself in three different meters before he began seriously to write or publish there Is no man however v who ho Is u so careful of his poetical reputation as lord tennyson and it Is not likely that he lie will permit this early drama ever to see the light of day T the h e number of his own poems which tennyson has suppressed during his lifetime would fill 1111 a bulky vo volume luine Boo bookman kinan |