A Tennyson Primer

Author : William Macneile Dixon
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ISBN 13 : 9781331066903
Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book A Tennyson Primer written by William Macneile Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Tennyson Primer: With a Critical Essay "That is the first money, my boy, that you've made by poetry, and, take my word for it, it will be the last." Perhaps the lines in the Poems by Two Brothers, be ginning, "There on the bier she sleeps," are an improved version of this early attempt. In his twelfth year he was busy on an epic in imitation of Scott, which ran to some thousand lines, and in his fifteenth he essayed a drama. Of the epic it is interesting to note that, in his father's judgment, it gave promise of a famous future. "If that boy dies," said Mr. Tennyson, "one of our greatest poets will have gone." After the village school came the grammar school at Louth, followed in its turn by home tuition. The changes hardly broke the tranquil, dreamy life spent by the boy, chiefly alone - for he was naturally of retiring disposition - or in long rambles with his favourite brother Charles. The news of Byron's death, in 1824, was the first wave of emotion from the outside world that touched him. "I thought," he said, "that everything was over and finished for every one - that nothing else mattered. I remember I walked out alone and carved 'Byron is dead!' into the sandstone." Two years later Alfred and Charles joined in a poetical venture, and put forth a small volume: but rather, it appears, in search of pocket-money than fame. A Louth bookseller, Jackson by name, was induced to give twenty pounds for the copyright of their juvenilia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.