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Author:Alfred Tennyson—the third of seven brothers, all or nearly all of whom have written poetry —was born August 5th, 1809, at Somersby, a small village in Lincolnshire, lying about midway between the market-towns of Spilsby and Horncastle, and containing at that time less than a hundred inhabitants. Of this parish, his father, Dr. George Clayton Tennyson, was the rector. Dr. Tennyson was a man of energetic character,