The Eagle Poetry
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Alfred Tennyson was born in 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England to a clergyman father. He was educated at home by his father and later attended Louth Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1827, while at Cambridge, he published his first collection of poems with his brother Charles. Tennyson published his first solo collection of poems in 1830 titled "Poems Chiefly Lyrical". He had a long and successful career as a poet, being named Poet Laureate in 1850. Tennyson died in 1892 at the age of 83 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
The Eagle Poetry
- 2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) ? Birth Alfred Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the fourth of the twelve children of George Tennyson, clergyman, and his wife, Elizabeth. His father¡¯s father had gone against all tradition in making his younger son, Charles, his principal heir, and arranging for George to enter the ministry.
- 3. ? Education In 1816 (7) Tennyson was sent to Louth Grammar School, which he disliked so intensely that in later life he refused even to walk past the school. From 1820 (11) he was educated at home, mainly by his father, who introduced him to such works as The Arabian Nights, The Koran and other books of folklore and myth. He joined his brothers, Frederick and Charles, at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1827 (18), and, with his brother Charles, published Poems by Two Brothers in the same year.
- 4. ? First publication In 1830 (21) he published Poems Chiefly Lyrical. ? Death He died in 1892 (83) and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
- 5. The Eagle He clasps the crag with crooked hands Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.