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Essay Archive - Alfred Tennyson and His Work
Alfred Tennyson and His Work
Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6th, 1809, at Somersby,
Lincolnshire, fourth of twelve children of George and Elizabeth Tennyson.
Tennyson, said to be the best poet of the Victorian era and his poetry will
be discussed in this essay.
Tennyson had a lifelong fear of mental illness, because several men
in his family had a mild form of epilepsy, which then was thought of as a
shameful disease. His father and brother Arthur made their epilepsy worse
by excessive drinking. His brother Edward had to be put in a mental
institution after 1833, and he spent a few weeks himself under doctor's
car....
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