Alfred Tennyson was born in 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England to a clergyman father. He was educated at home by his father and later attended Louth Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1827, while at Cambridge, he published his first collection of poems with his brother Charles. Tennyson published his first solo collection of poems in 1830 titled "Poems Chiefly Lyrical". He had a long and successful career as a poet, being named Poet Laureate in 1850. Tennyson died in 1892 at the age of 83 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(1809-1892)
• Birth
Alfred Tennyson was born in
Somersby, Lincolnshire, the fourth
of the twelve children of George
Tennyson, clergyman, and his wife,
Elizabeth. His father’s father had
gone against all tradition in making
his younger son, Charles, his
principal heir, and arranging for
George to enter the ministry.

3. • Education
In 1816 (7) Tennyson was sent to Louth Grammar
School, which he disliked so intensely that in later
life he refused even to walk past the school. From
1820 (11) he was educated at home, mainly by his
father, who introduced him to such works as The
Arabian Nights, The Koran and other books of
folklore and myth. He joined his brothers,
Frederick and Charles, at Trinity College,
Cambridge, in 1827 (18), and, with his brother
Charles, published Poems by Two Brothers in the
same year.

4. • First publication
In 1830 (21) he published Poems Chiefly
Lyrical.
• Death
He died in 1892 (83) and was buried in
Westminster Abbey.

5. The Eagle
He clasps the crag with crooked hands
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.