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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE*
A Book of the Year in the Times; Telegraph; Spectator; Financial Times; Observer; Waterstones and Daunt Books
A dazzling new biography of young Tennyson by the prize-winning, bestselling author of The Age of Wonder.
Alfred Lord Tennyson is now remembered -…
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I taught Tennyson’s major poems to university students for many, many years. I love these poems with all my heart, and what the historian and biographer Richard Holmes has done is give them back to me, fresh, vital, immediate, urgent, moving, miraculous.
Holmes demonstrates his lucid and masterful power of interpretation when he gives us a close reading of the language, form, and register of these poems. He places Tennyson in the midst of the intellectual tidal waves of his times: the religious upheaval unleashed by new scientific perceptions, the revolutionary debates on our origins with Charles Darwin at the…
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