Biography of Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson was born into an old Lincolnshire family and was the fourth of twelve children. He went to school with Frederick and Charles, two of his brothers, in 1815 at Louth grammar school. Tennyson left school in 1820 as he was unhappy but under difficult conditions his father gave him a broad education. Before he had reached his teens he had already written in the styles of Sir Walter Scott, Alexander Pope and John Milton. As Tennyson lived in the countryside he included a lot of his surroundings in his poems. In 1821 he wrote a 6000 line poem and in…
