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fromSlate Magazine
1 week ago

Our Greatest Living Biographer Is Back With His First Single-Subject Book in Decades. It's Enthralling.

Young Alfred Tennyson's early life intertwined poetic sensibility with scientific curiosity amid a Victorian crisis of belief.
fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

In an Age of Science, Tennyson Grappled with an Unsettling New World

Maybe it was the M train rattling the windows of your bedroom as it hurtled past your apartment six times an hour. Maybe it was the crunch of gravel in the driveway when your mother returned home from the night shift. Maybe it was your PlayStation starting up. Maybe it was your parents screaming at each other. Maybe it was the brassy, braggart shriek of roosters at four in the morning. Noise is like water: it will enter everywhere it can, by seep or by surge, and change the shape of things.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes review wild times with young Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson transformed from a restless, melancholic youth into a celebrated, settled poet in 1850 after publishing In Memoriam, marrying, gaining wealth, and becoming poet laureate.
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