Finding the Modern Frames in Tennyson's Final Classical Poems.(English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson)(Critical Essay)

From: Philological Quarterly | Date: September 22, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

As a young child, Alfred Tennyson received an education in Greek and Latin literature that was unusually rigorous, even by the standards of the early nineteenth century. In the years before he was sent to Louth Grammar School and later to Trinity College, Cambridge, Tennyson's father gave his son a thorough classical training that included regularly translating into English the copious passages of Latin commentary in both his Greek and Latin texts, and memorizing lengthy passages of classical verse, including at one point all four books of Horace's odes. Such an early inundation ...

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