“You see a great deal of mankind, but it is mankind sick — the devil a saint would be. Do you therefore think you know mankind?”
About 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…