TENNYSON.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 581, 9 August 1909, Page 5

TENNYSON.

■_ » —— CENTENARY ARTICLES. (Br Tcletrttph.-Preea Ansocl.itlon.-Ooprrlelst.l ■ London, August 6. The newspapers publish long articles dealing with the Tennyson Centenary, and expressing appreciation of the poet's writings. Alfred Tennyson was bom at Somersby, Lincolnshire, on August. 6, ISO 9, and died at Alaworth House, near Haslemore,Surrey, on October 6, 18.92. He was the son of George Clayton Tennyson, vicar of Great Grimsby and rector of Somersby and Enderby. He published, with, his brother Charles,'a collection of juvenile poems ("Poem6 by Two Brothers") in 1827.. He was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1828-31 (with Arthur H. Hallam, Houghr ton, Tronch, and others), where fee-'wrote the prize- poem, "■ Tinibuctoo", (1E29). Ho lived at various places till 1850, when he married and settled at Twickenham; and afterwards lived at Aldworth (Sussex), and from 1853 a« Farringford (Islo of Wight). Hβ received a gtate: pension in 1815, succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate in 1850, and was raised to the peerage es Baron Tennyson, pf Aldworth.in 1884. He lived a secluded life, and died of old Rfo ,nuer a short painless illness,. He. was buried in the'Poot's Corner, near .Chaucer, in Westminster Abbey. ' -