Alfred Tennyson

1809-1892
Poet

1809. Born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, August 6.
1816-20. At school at Louth.
1820-7. Educated at home.
1827. Poems by Two Brothers, Charles and Alfred.
1828-31. Trinity College, Cambridge.
1830-2. Early volumes of poetry published.
1833. Death of Arthur Hallam at Vienna.
1837. High Beech, Essex.
1840. Tunbridge Wells.
1842. Collected poems, including 'Morte d'Arthur' and 'English Idyls'.
1846. Cheltenham.
1847. The Princess.
1850. In Memoriam, printed and given to friends before March; published June. Marriage, June. Poet Laureate, November.
1852. 'Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.'
1853. Becomes tenant—1856, owner—of Farringford, Isle of Wight.
1855. Maud.
1859. First four 'Idylls of the King' published.
1864. Enoch Arden.
1869. Second home at Aldworth, near Haslemere.
1875-84. Plays (1875 'Queen Mary', 1876 'Harold', 1884 'Becket').
1880. Ballads and other Poems ('The Revenge', &c.).
1884. Created a Peer of the realm.
1892. October 6, death at Aldworth. October 12, funeral at Westminster Abbey.

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