Charles Tennyson Turner — a remark

From the V2Melody quotations library — share the card, then explore the poet and poems below.

“It is reading round about a subject and not the subject itself which damages the intellect so much.”

Urging direct engagement with a subject rather than second-hand commentary · 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…

More by Charles Tennyson Turner

Poems by Charles Tennyson Turner

All poems by this poet

More remarks by Charles Tennyson Turner

All remarks by this poet

Poet page · All remarks · Quotations hub

Skip to main content