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fromSlate Magazine
1 week ago
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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.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago
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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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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

Why Tennyson Feels So Modern

Young Alfred, Lord Tennyson absorbed unsettling scientific ideas, shaping his melancholic temperament and the themes of belief crisis in his poetry.
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