Excerpt from Selections From the Poems of Tennyson: Edited for School Use
Alfred Tennyson, the fourth of twelve children all but two of whom lived to be over seventy, was born August G, 1809, in the rectory of Somersby, Lincolnshire. Ilis father, the rector, was a tall, strong, energetic man, with a dominating personality. He had great ability and considerable learning, and most that the boys knew before they went to college he taught them. He was of a highly nervous temperament, a man of moods, sometimes giving way to fits of black despondency, sometimes delighting a company with his geniality and witty conversation. The poet's mother had been a great beauty and a bolle in the county. She was extremely innocent and tenderhearted, yet with a strong sense of humor. "A remarkable and saintly woman," said her son, "always doing good by a sort of intuition." "I once asked him," wrote Dr. Ker, "whether his mother had not sat for the picture of the Prince's mother in The Princess [VII. 298-312] and he allowed that no one else had.
'Happy he
With such a mother! faith in womankind
Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high
Comes easy to him, and tho' he trip and fall
lie shall not blind his soul with clay.'"
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