Charles Tennyson Turner — a remark

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“Those who assume that they will find there no food for the mature reason will be surprised at its large provision for the intellect and rich satisfaction of the highest imagination.”

Arguing that theology can nourish both reason and imagination · Letter to Alfred Tennyson, 1865

About Charles Tennyson Turner

Charles Tennyson Turner

4 July 1808–25 April 1879

Charles Tennyson Turner was born Charles Turner on 4 July 1808 at Somersby Rectory in Lincolnshire, and died on 25 April 1879 at Grasby, also in Lincolnshire. He lived during the long Victorian transformation of English literary culture, yet his own life retained a strongly local character: he was a country clergyman…

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