Show BEAUTIFUL LIFE alfred lord tennyson lived a life as beautiful and unreal in its romanticism as that of any hero 1 in his king arthur stories the drowning of arthur hallarn hallam Tenny sons college friend w who understood and encouraged ahto the sensitive poet caused tennyson to suffer er a nervous collapse and to live ten years in retirement at the end of that time he presented for publication in memoriam an elegy to arthur hallam allam II a poem said to have brought more comfort to sorrow ing people than any other po tennyson was not wealthy adf he and his sweetheart wanted to leave the path of his life open for writing instead of trying to earn a less precarious livelihood so they waited many years before marriage was possible speaking of his carrying emily sellwood he said on the day I 1 married her the peace of god entered into my soul at the death of wordsworth tennyson was made poet laureate of england having long enjoyed the friendship of queen victoria after that he was so besieged by sightseers that he was forced to move to the isle of wight which place is now famous for having been his home tennyson died in 1892 at the age of eighty three fk f |