HallamTennyson, 2nd BaronTennyson, GCMG, PC (11 August 1852 - 2 December 1928), second Governor-General of Australia, was born at Chapel House, Twickenham, in Surrey, England.
Hallam was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, but his career aspirations ended when his parents' age and ill-health obliged him to leave Cambridge to become their personal secretary.
It was partly for Hallam's benefit that Alfred Tennyson accepted a peerage in 1884, the year Hallam married Audrey Boyle (after being disappointed in his love for Mary Gladstone, daughter of William Ewart Gladstone).
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It was in 1850 that Tennyson reached the pinnacle of career being appointed Poet Laureate in succession to William Wordsworth and in the same year producing masterpiece In Memoriam dedicated to a friend from his days Arthur Hallam who was to have been married Tennyson's sister Emilia.
Queen Victoria was an ardent admirer of Tennyson's and in 1884 created him 1st BaronTennyson of He was the first English writer raised the peerage.
He was succeeded as 2nd Baron by his son Hallam who produced an authorised biography of his father in 1897 and was later the second Governor-General of Australia.
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Tennyson was born in Lincolnshire, a rector's son and one of 12 children.
Tennyson and two of his elder brothers were writing poetry in their teens, and a collection of poems by all three was published locally when Alfred was only 17.
Tennyson and his family were allowed to stay in the rectory for some time, but later moved to Essex.
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st BaronTennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom after William Wordsworth and is one of the most popular English poets in literature.
Tennyson's most famous work is Idylls of the King (1885), a series of narrative poems based entirely on King Arthur and the Arthurian tales, as thematically suggested by Sir Thomas Mallory's earlier tales on the legendary king.
Alfred Tennyson was born in Lincolnshire, a rector's son and one of 12 children.
Tennyson was the son of an intelligent but unstable clergyman in Lincolnshire.
Tennysons next published work, Poems (1842), expressed his philosophic doubts in a materialistic, increasingly scientific age and his longing for a sustaining faith.
Unappreciated early in the 20th cent., Tennyson has since been recognized as a great poet, notable for his mastery of technique, his superb use of sensuous language, and his profundity of thought.
Bradley, A. A Commentary on Tennysons In Memoriam.
Hallam, A. The Poems of A. Hallam, together with his Essay on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson.
[With a preface by Tennyson, Hallam, and an introductory essay by Spedding, J.; rptd.
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Early in 1899 Tennyson was appointed governor of South Australia, and though he had had no experience of official work, his frank manner and ability made a very good impression.
When Lord Hopetoun (q.v.) unexpectedly resigned as governor-general of Australia in July 1902, Tennyson was asked to become acting governor-general, and from January 1903 was governor-general.
His eldest son, Lionel Hallam, well-known as a cricketer and captain of England against Australia, became the third baron.
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TENNYSON, ALFRED TENNYSON, 1ST BARON[Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron], 1809-92, English poet.
Occasional poems, such as the "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" (1852) and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1855), were part of his duties as laureate.
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The collection consists of personal correspondence of HallamTennyson, who was the eldest son and biographer of the poet Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892).
Permission to publish material from the Tennyson, Hallam, Letters and Postcards, must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.
HallamTennyson Letters and Postcards, 1886-1926, MS 136, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.
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This is a rich collection of the work of Tennyson, and those who care for his verse will derive great pleasure from it.
Tennyson lives as a poet to me primarily through one poem, 'Ulysses'.
This kind of determination not only spoke to the Victorian world, and to Tennyson's own life- situation with its great losses and difficulties, but I believe will speak to mankind for so long as we are human.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Bibliography from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907—21).
For exhaustive bibliography, see W[ise], T. Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 2 vols., ptd.
If you want to read more about Arthur, we recommend both 'The Idylls of the King ' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and 'Le Morte d'Arthur' by Sir Thomas Malory.
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