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to Strive, to Seek, to Find
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Book, 2012
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Current format, Book, 2012, , Available . Offered in 0 more formats"Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's favourite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. His ascendancy was neither the triumph of pure genius or an accident of history: he skilfully crafted his own career and his relationships with his audience. Fame and recognition came, lavishly and in abundance, but the hunger for more never left him. Like many successful Victorians, he was a provincial dfetermined to make good in the capital while retaining his regional strengths. One of eleven children, he remained close to his extended family and never lost his Lincolnshire accent. ... [He] ranged widely in hnis poetry, turning his interests to geology, evolution and Arthurian legend into verse, but much of his work relates to his personal life. The loss of Arthur Hallam, a brilliant friend and fellow Apostle at Cambridge, fed into some of his most successful and best-known poems. It took Tennyson seventeen years to complete his great elegy for Hallam, In Memoriam, a work which established his fame and secured his appointment as Poet Laureate. The poet who wrote The Lady of Shalott and The Charge of the Light Brigade has become a permanent part of our culture. This ... biography shows him as a Romantic as well as a Victorian, exploring both the poems and Tennyson's attempts at playwriting, as well as the pressurews of his age and the personal relationships that made the man."--Book jacket.
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