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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE A Book of the Year in the Times Telegraph Spectator Financial Times Observer Waterstones and Daunt BooksA dazzling new biography of young Tennyson by the prize winning bestselling author of The Age of Wonder Alfred Lord Tennyson is now remembered if he is remembered at all as the gloomily bearded Poet Laureate author of such clanking Victorian works as The Charge of the Light Brigade and the mournful author of the lugubrious elegy In Memoriam In this dazzling new biography Richard Holmes reawakens this somnolent Victorian figure brings him back to sparkling life and unexpectedly transforms him From the prize winning and bestselling biographer of Shelley and Coleridge and author of the landmark critically acclaimed THE AGE OF WONDER Holmes recovers in Young Tennyson an astonishingly magnetic and mercurial personality a secretly expressive and highly emotional man but now haunted by the great intellectual and above all the great scientific issues of his time The brilliant child of an obscure dysfunctional Lincolnshire family terrorised by a drunken father torn by unhappy love affairs but sustained by vivid friendships especially that of Edward FitzGera