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When John Batchelor's latest biography, 'Tennyson: To strive, to seek, to find' came out in hardcover in the United Kingdom last year, I bought it immediately!
John bachelor tennyson biography templates
I read it cover-to-cover and then reviewed it on Amazon UK. After exchanging emails he agreed to answer my questions!
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Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's favourite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time.
His ascendancy was neither the triumph of pure genius nor an accident of history:he skilfully crafted his own career and his relationships with his audience. Fame and recognition came, lavishly and in abundance, but the hunger for more never left him.
Like many successful Victorians, he was a provincial determined to make good in the capital while retaining his regional strengths. One of eleven children, he remained close to his extended family and never lost his Lincolnshire accent.Resolving never to be anything except 'a poet', he wore his hair long, smoked incess