For half a century students of Tennyson have depended upon the Memoir and the supplementary Tennyson and His Friends, which were compiled by his son Hallam, and those volumes, with their many letters ...
Was Tennyson ever young? Richard Holmes’ enthralling biography of the great poet begins with this question. Surviving photographs have fixed him in the public imagination as an ageing, forbidding ...
Even Alfred, Lord Tennyson was young once. You wouldn’t know it from the photos, thanks to which he is “enshrined in the national memory” as a “Victorian bard,” face swallowed by “a tremendous beard,” ...