1809 - 1883

Born August 6, 1809, Somersby, Lincolnshire, England.

One of twelve children.

At just age twelve he wrote a 6,000-line epic poem.

In 1827 attended Trinity College, Cambridge.

In 1830, Tennyson published "Poems", "Chiefly Lyrical", and in 1832 he published a second volume entitled simply "Poems".

In 1850, with the publication of "In Memoriam", Tennyson became one of Britain's most popular poets.

Married Emily Sellwood.

They had two sons.

In 1859, Tennyson published the first poems of "Idylls of the Kings", which sold more than 10,000 copies in one month.

Died in 1892.

Buried in Westminster Abbey.



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