The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-08-05
CENTENARY OF TFNNYSlN
BORN AUGUST E, 1900.

/ presslve and yet so human, poet
and child, recluse but also inter-
prefer of the spirit of his age. OF
that notable body OF men born in
the yearI8o9-year "goodly nurse
OF heroes no life-story makes
better reading than that Of the
great English poet.
Tenuyson was born at Somers-
by, Lincolnshire, August 6, 1900.
His father, a rector, known as the
stern Doctor" was a man of
great stature and strength, the
mother was gentle and sympathet-
ic, confident of her children, lend
ing listening ear to the poetic eff
forts of her boys. She is picture
in the following:
Locks not widespread
MadOnna-wise on either side her head:
Sweet lips wherein perpetually did reign
The summer calm of golden charity"
When Tennyson was seven years
old he was sent to school at the
market town of Louth, and this
town should be mentioned as the
place where his first published
work appeared, 1927, Alfred and
his brother Charles putting forth
" Poems of Two Brothers." For
this volume they received $500,
but had to take one half out in
books from the publisher shop.
In 1928 the two brothers entered
Trinity College, Cambridge. Our
poet did not take a degree at Cam
bridge, early in 1881, called home
by the serious illness of his father,
who died shortly after his arrival.
At Cambridge was begun the
friendship with brilliant loveable
Arthur Hallam, whose life and
death were to exert such influence
on the poets work, After Alfred
leftthe university Hallam became
frequent visitor at the Tennysons,'
became engaged to his friends
sister Emily, the bond uniting the
two men growing stronger and
stronger, when suddenly snapped
by HaIlam's death in 1883 while
travelling abroad with his father.
His body was brought back home
for burial, was laid to rest at
Cliveden by the sea.
when on my bed the moonlight falls,
know that in thy place of rest
BY that broad water of the west
There comes glory on the walls
Tennyson, overpowered with
loss and grief, his mind filled with
memories of his comrade, wrote
many verses in response to that
influence; but it was years before
was printed the connected and
complete I'm Memoriam," prob
ably the noblest monument ever
raised by the human spirit to the
memory of lost and unforgotten
friend"
1t was late in 1882, after Rhine
tour taken with Hallam. that there
appeared the volume Poems by
Alfred Tennyson;" included in
this early output a number of
poems now familiar to English
speaking people the wide world
over-The Lady of Shalott, The
Miller's Daughter, The Palace of
Art, The Lotos Eaters, A Dream
of Fair Women. Very Tennyson-
ian, Benson calls the pictorial
poems, class poems practically
invented by Tennyson. In 1912
he published two volumes, some
selections from old poems and
among the new work "Morte
d Arthur" Love and Duty"
"LoCksley Hail." Break, Break,
Break" and now, as Benson says,
Tennyson came home to the heart
of the nation. In 1850 "In Me-
moriam" was published.
Tennyson did not marry until
he was 40. He met Emily Sell
wood 20 years previous to their
marriage, his brother Charles mar
ried her sister in 1886, and a few
years later he and Emily became
lovers, but they were not welded
until 1850