Alfred Lord Tennyson — a remark

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“My book is out and I hate it, and so no doubt will you. Never mind, you will like me none the worse.”

Revealing anxiety and self-doubt at the moment of publication · Letter to Aubrey de Vere, 1847

About Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson

6 August 1809–6 October 1892

Alfred Tennyson, later Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was born on 6 August 1809 at Somersby rectory in Lincolnshire, England, and died on 6 October 1892 at Lurgashall in Sussex. During his long life he became the defining poetic voice of the Victorian age: at once a public laureate who wrote for national occasions and a…

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