TENNYSONIANA.
CHAPTER I.
poems by two brothers.
Alfred Tennyson—the third of seven brothers, all or nearly all of whom have written poetry[1]—was born August 5th, 1809, at Somersby, a small village in Lincolnshire, lying about midway between the market-towns of Spilsby and Horncastle, and containing at that time less than a hundred inhabitants. Of this parish, his father, Dr. George Clayton Tennyson, was the rector. Dr. Tennyson was a man of energetic character,
- ↑ Frederick, Charles (born at Somersby, July 4, 1808), Alfred, Edward, Harold, Arthur, and Septimus (died at Cheltenham, September 7, 1866).
