Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson was a British poet born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England on August 6, 1809. He was the fourth of twelve children and grew up in a family that valued education and literature. His father was a rector and his mother was the daughter of a rector, so Tennyson was surrounded by books and intellectual conversation from a young age. Tennyson's early education was primarily at home, but he later attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became friends with other notable writers of the time, including Arthur Hallam. Hallam's sudden death in 1833 had a profound impact on Tennyson and inspired some of his most famous works, including "In Memoriam A.H.H." Tennyson's first published work was a collection of poems titled "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical" in 1830. He continued to publish poetry throughout his life, including "The Princess" (1847), "Maud" (1855), and "Idylls of the King" (1859-1885), which is a collection of poems about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. In 1850, Tennyson was a