Identifier: greatfamous07hornuoft (find matches)
Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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ese poemsyou are all the time writing, and sell it to a publisher ? Acting on this hint theboys offered their small collection to a publisher, who doubtless thinking thattwo families so well-placed in the county as the Tennysons and the Fytcheswould insure the success of their young offshoots venture, assumed the expenseof printing, and gave the budding poets ten pounds to boot. The Poems bytwo Brothers appeared in 1827. The news of its publication was greeted byone of the uncles with the remark : I hear that my nephew has made a book.I wish it had been a wheelbarrow ! The thin volume has long ago passed intothe domain of books not to be had, and when by any chance a copy is broughtto light the price it brings in the open market would have taken the unclesbreath away. The book has lately been reprinted, and in this form is now acces-sible. At Cambridge, Tennyson entered Trinity College, and while there made theacquaintance of Arthur Henry Hallam, which soon ripened into the friendship
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DC zzu ALFRED TENNYSON 185 that has been made immortal in the poem In Memoriam. The only distinctionTennyson would seem to have gained at Cambridge was the Chancellors goldmedal awarded for the prize-poem Timbuctoo, a curious production long con-signed to oblivion but now included in the authorized edition of the poets col-lected work. In 1811 the Rev. Mr. Tennyson died, and on leaving Cambridge, Alfred re-turned to Somersby and lived with his mother and sisters. In 1830 he published Poems chiefly Lyrical, in 1832 Poems, and in 1842 Poems, in two vol-umes, which first opened the eyes of the English public to the fact that a newplanet had appeared in the heaven of poetry, and Tennysons name soon becamea household word. In 1845 he was awarded a pension of /200 per annum fromthe Civil List, and in 1850 he was made Poet Laureate, on the death of Words-worth. In the same year he married Miss Emily Sell wood, whom he had longknown at Somersby, the daughter of a lawyer,

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