ASIN: B07CX75WHP
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 82
*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of Tennyson's work*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.” “Singing in her song she died, The Lady of Shalott.”“’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”“Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.”These are just a few of the many great quotes bequeathed to the world by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, but as their tones suggest, they were products of a difficult and often tragic life. Born to a father plagued by bouts of drinking and depression, and surrounded by siblings with similar ailments, Tennyson grew up believing that he must be a victim of hereditary illness, to the point that he believed he must never marry or father children less he perpetuate the suffering on future ...
