Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was the fourth of 12 children raised in a lonely rectory in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England. Though home conditions were difficult, his father, who served as the village rector, managed to give him a wide literary education. The Lincolnshire countryside influenced his poetry, which he began composing before his teens.
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