OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, LOUTH
The original building, now no longer in existence, where Tennyson was sent to school at the age of seven
(Reproduced from “The Laureate’s Country,” by kind permission of Messrs. Seeley & Co., Ltd.)
From a drawing by E. Hull
with—it was as powerful as a cannonade and as enchanting as a song. But in this struggle he had always had Nature on his side. He might be polluted and agonised, but the flowers were innocent and the hills were strong. All the armoury of life, the spears of the pinewood and the batteries of the lightning, went into battle beside him. Tennyson lived in the hour when, to all mortal appearance, the whole of the physical world deserted to the devil. The universe, governed by violence and death, left man to fight alone, with a handful of myths and memories. Men had now to wander in polluted fields and lift up their eyes to abominable hills. They had to arm themselves against the cruelty of flowers and the crimes of the grass. The first honour, surely, is to those who did not faint in the face of that confounding
From the bust by Chantrey
ARTHUR H. HALLAM
(Reproduced from Hallam’s “Remains,” by kind permission of Mr. John Murray)