Alfred_Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire on August. 6,1809. He was an English poet who wrote many poems in his lifetime. He died on October. 6, 1892, he was 83 years old. Tennyson lived a very hard life, and this affected his poetry. Tennyson was born the fourth child to George and Elizabeth Fytche Tennyson. He had eleven brothers and sisters. Long before Tennyson was sent to school he was writing poetry to escape the unhappy atmosphere in Somersby. He used writing to take his mind off of all his troubles all his life. As he was a boy while he would be walking he would make up “phrases or discrete lines” and he would just remember them until he really needed them. When he was seventeen years old Poems by Two Brothers Volume one was published. For Tennyson to be such a young poet this was a really great book. It showed great versification and imagery. Those two things were to mark his later works. It sold many copies and it had only two reviews, but by its publication it was confirmed that Tennyson was determined to devote his life to poetry. He was home schooled and spent almost tennyson, poems, years, poetry, death, memoriam, life, very, time, hallam, poem, wrote, tennyson’s, writing, two, scheme, poet, after, about, wanted, started, rhyme, really, published, lines, group, friends, five, emily, ‘alfred, young, year, written, write, work, volume