The Boundless Deep

Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief

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<p><strong>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE*</strong></p><p><strong>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE*</strong></p><p><strong>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE*</strong></p><p><strong>A Book of the Year in the Times; Telegraph; Spectator; Financial Times; Observer; Waterstones and Daunt Books</strong></p><p><strong>A dazzling new biography of young Tennyson by the prize-winning, bestselling author of <em>The Age of Wonder</em>.</strong></p><p>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<em> In Memoriam.</em>In this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes reawakens this somnolent Victorian figure, brings him back to sparkling life, and unexpectedly transforms him.</p><p>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.</p><p>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 FitzGerald, the author of 'Omar Khayyam') Young Tennyson emerges in his first forty years as a memorable poet, hypnotically musical ('The Lady of Shalott') yet intensely engaged with the new astronomy, geology, biology - and even the psychiatry - of the age before Darwin.</p><p>Tennyson's imagination and intellect were haunted by the eruption of three new fundamentally transformative scientific ideas - biological evolution, the notion of a godless, unpitying universe and of planetary extinction. These were as terrify

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780008696863

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 130 x 36 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

HarperCollins Publishers