Excerpt from Tennyson Remembrance Book: A Memorial for the Poet's Reader Friends Judged by conventional standards in these days of hurry, the life of Alfred Tennyson would seem to have been singularly unevent ful He was born in the flat Lincolnshire country of England, in the rectory of Somersby, on the sixth Of August, 1809, one year after Longfellow, two years after Whittier was born in 1807. His boyhood was passed at home, his education being almost entirely conducted by his father, a cultivated English clergyman. Apart from his home training he had four years at the grammar school of Louth and the regular university course at Cambridge. The rectory children were a baker's dozen, happy, precocious, and most Of them story writers or poetizers at an early age. 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.