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Richard Holmes dives into the early life of Victorian-era poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and his complex ideas, works and words that still hold relevance even today.

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR • SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE

In this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, discovers in Young Tennyson an astonishingly magnetic and mercurial personality, a secretly expressive and highly emotional man haunted by the great intellectual and scientific issues of his time.

"[Holmes is a] master scholar-biographer. . . . In prose so lucid that you barely notice when it has slipped i...