college life, and reverence could do for him had part in
the poet's education. Neither passion, ill health, nor
extreme poverty assailed him; and soon popular acclaim
was his. He succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate in
1850, and was raised to the peerage as Lord Tennyson in
1884. A chronology of the books of poems of Tennyson,
contributed to the Memoir of his life by his son, comprises
sixty-three items from the early issues just mentioned to
a complete one volume edition in 1894, two years after
the poet's death; and this by no means includes all separ-
ate and foreign issues. Tennyson's later years reaped a
golden reward, and the popularity of his poetry in his
lifetime was such as no English poet had known before
him.

Tennyson grew up with poetry about him. His two bro-
thers wrote other verse besides their first joint endeavor.
Charles, who took the name of Turner on succeeding to
his uncle's estates, was an excellent sonneteer after the
Wordsworthian manner. Frederick, after a first volume,
Days and Hours, in 1854, recurred to poetry in his elder
years, and more resembles, in weaker mould, the poetic
lineaments of his great brother. Both suffered from his
august shadow as who save the greatest might not?
Tennyson's friend, too, Arthur Hallam, in whose memory
he wrote the magnificent requiem, "In Memoriam," left
at his untimely death some estimable minor poetry; and
Edward FitzGerald, whose affectionate enthusiasm never
allowed that there was a greater Tennyson than that of
the first fruitage of the volume of 1842, afterwards at-

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