Frederick Tennyson
Frederick Tennyson (5 June 1807 in Louth, Lincolnshire – 26 February 1898 in Kensington) was an English poet.
Life
Frederick Tennyson was the eldest son of George Clayton Tennyson, Rector of Somersby, Lincolnshire, and brother of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He was educated at Eton College (where, as a skilled cricketer, he was Captain of the Oppidans) and, from 1827, St John's College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he contributed four poems to Poems, by Two Brothers, which Frederick, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and their brother Charles Tennyson Turner published in 1827. He also won the Browne medal for Greek verse composition (a Sapphic ode on the pyramids) in 1828, but was rusticated for three terms for refusal to accept punishment for not attending chapel. Re-admitted to Cambridge in 1830, he graduated BA in 1832.[1]
Tennyson passed most of his subsequent life in Italy and Jersey. On his inheritance of an estate near Grimsby in 1833, he went firstly to Corfu, then settled for twenty years in Florence, where he was a friend of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In 1839 he married Maria Carolina Giuliotti, the daughter of the Chief magistrate of Tuscany.[1]
He became an Anglo-Israelite and later joined the Church of the New Jerusalem.[1]
He died on the 26th February 1898 and is buried on the west side of Highgate Cemetery.
Works
- Days and Hours, 1854
- The Isles of Greece: Sappho and Alcæus, 1890
- Daphne and other poems, 1891
- Poems of the Day and Year, 1895
References
- ^ a b c "Tennyson, Frederick (TNY825F)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
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- Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830)
- "The Deserted House"
- "The Kraken"
- "The Lady of Shalott"
- "The Lotos-Eaters"
- "Mariana"
- "Oenone"
- "Mariana in the South"
- The Miller's Daughter
- "Claribel"
- "The Ballad of Oriana"
- "Break, Break, Break"
- "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
- "The Day-Dream"
- "A Dream of Fair Women"
- "Godiva"
- "St. Agnes"
- Lady Clare
- Idylls of the King
- "In Memoriam A.H.H."
- "Lady Clara Vere de Vere"
- "Locksley Hall"
- "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal"
- Poems (1842)
- "The Palace of Art"
- The Princess
- "Sir Galahad"
- "St. Simeon Stylites"
- "Sweet and Low"
- "Tears, Idle Tears"
- "The Two Voices"
- "Ulysses"
- "Crossing the Bar"
- "The Eagle"
- Enoch Arden
- "Flower in the Crannied Wall"
- "The Higher Pantheism"
- Maud
- "Ring Out, Wild Bells"
- "Tithonus"
- The Foresters (play)
- The Window (song cycle)
- Emily Tennyson (wife)
- Hallam Tennyson (son)
- Lionel Tennyson (grandson)
- Charles Tennyson (grandson)
- Emilia Tennyson (sister)
- Charles Tennyson Turner (brother)
- Frederick Tennyson (brother)
- Arthur Hallam (friend)
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