Tennyson was educated by his father, who was the rector of Somersby, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. His first publication of poems, Poems by Two Brothers, appeared in 1827. This was followed in 1830 by Poems, chiefly Lyrical and in 1833 by a further volume of Poems. In 1842 he published two volumes of poems which contained Morte d'Arthur and Ulysses, the fomer being the initial idea for his later Idylls of the King. He was appointed poet laureate in 1850, succeeding Wordsworth, and in 1854 published his famous Charge of the Light Brigade. The first four books of the Idylls of the King were published in 1859 and the remaining eight books were published at intervals over the next 25 years. He was made a peer in 1884 and on his death in 1892, was buried in Westminster Abbey. |
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