Drawing on the official biography by the poet’s son, Andrew Lang follows Tennyson from boyhood and Cambridge through the early poems, The Princess, In Memoriam and Idylls of the King. Along the way he discusses sources such as the Mabinogion and defends Tennyson against both his critics and his over-eager localisers.
An elegant, opinionated short study by one of the most versatile Victorian men of letters. Download the free EPUB.