Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was the most famous poet of the Victorian era, renowned for his dramatically powerful subjects and highly-wrought melodious style.
It has been suggested that Tennyson's enthusiasm for Keats' poetry had led him to consider settling on the island where Keats had chosen to write
Alfred and Emily Tennyson viewed the tranquility and intimacy of their remote island home as the perfect place to raise their two sons.
'Everybody is either a genius, or a poet, or a painter or peculiar in some way', wrote Anny Thackeray on a visit to Freshwater in 1865.
Tennyson's life before and during his time at Farringford.
A list of books, archives, websites and places with useful information on Tennyson.