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* Alfred, Lord Tennyson 020901001 常楚璇 (1809 –1892) Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, a rectors son and fourth of 12 children. He derived from a middle-class line of Tennysons, but also had noble and royal ancestry.His father, George Clayton Tennyson (1778–1831), was rector of Somersby (1807–1831), also rector of Benniworth and Bag Enderby, and vicar of Grimsby (1815). The rector was the elder of two sons, but was disinherited at an early age by his father, the landowner George Tennyson (1750–1835) (owner of Bayons Manor and Usselby Hall), in favour of his younger brother Charles, who later took the name Charles Tennyson dEyncourt. Alfred Tennysons mother, Elizabeth Fytche (1781–1865), was the daughter of Stephen Fytche (1734–1799), vicar of St. James Church, Louth (1764) and rector of Withcall (1780), a small village between Horncastle and Louth. Tennysons father carefully attended to the education and training of his children.Tennyson and two of his elder brothers were writing poetry in their teens, and a collection of poems by all three were published locally when Alfred was only 17. One of those brothers, Charles Tennyson Turner later married Louisa Sellwood, the younger sister of Alfreds future wife; the other was Frederick Tennyson. Another of Tennysons brothers, Edward Tennyson, was institutionalised at a private asylum, where he died Early life Crossing the bar 《过沙洲》 The Eagle 《鹰》 Break, break,break 《拍吧，拍吧，拍吧》 In Memoriam 《悼念》 Idylls of the king 《国王叙事诗》 Ulysses 《尤利西斯》 Poems by two brothers 《两兄弟诗集》 The princess 《公主》 Major Works Literary career With In Memoriam(《悼念集》）, published in 1850, Tennyson attained full critical recognition and popularity unequalled by other English poet in his own lifetime. In the same year he succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate and in 1884 was made a baron, so has since been called Lord Tennyson.In 1892, Tennyson