The fourth of twelve children, Alfred Lord Tennyson was born in the Lincolnshire village of Somersby.

Most of Tennyson's education took place at home, with his father as his teacher.

Tenny and several of his brothers and sisters wrote verse while they were still children. In 1827, he and his brother Charles published anonymously Poems by Two Brothers

In 1842, his two-volume Poems was published, and Tennyson's popularity began to rise.