Excerpt from Tennyson's Life and Poetry: And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson Tennyson's literary career lasted nearly seventy years, for he was a prolific verse writer so long ago as 1825, when a lad of sixteen. His boyish rhymes were published anonymously, along with those of his elder brother Charles, in Poems by Two Braillers. Tl'l'e preface or advertisement of this precious volume was dated March, 1827; the ms. Of the poems went to the printer in 1826. For the manuscript the youths were paid fifteen pounds in money and ...
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Excerpt from Tennyson's Life and Poetry: And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson Tennyson's literary career lasted nearly seventy years, for he was a prolific verse writer so long ago as 1825, when a lad of sixteen. His boyish rhymes were published anonymously, along with those of his elder brother Charles, in Poems by Two Braillers. Tl'l'e preface or advertisement of this precious volume was dated March, 1827; the ms. Of the poems went to the printer in 1826. For the manuscript the youths were paid fifteen pounds in money and five pounds' worth of books; a few months after the Laureate's death it was sold (with the receipt) for ???480. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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