Excerpt from Lionel Tennyson Lionel Tennyson was born on March 16th 1854, at Farringford, in the Isle of Wight. From his babyhood he was always an affectionate, joyous, and beautiful child. As he developed, he was imaginative, and very fond of music, and of fairy stories, legends, and old ballads, read at his mothers knee. One day he was so much affected by some sad song which Mr. Lear was singing that, my mother has told me, she had to carry him out of the room. Our delight was great when Mr. Jowett used to tell us stories out of the Odyssey, or when our father read aloud about King Arthur, in the long winter evenings, as we sat in front of the yule-log fires. Then came the time of tutors; to some of these he was much attached, and would weep passionately at their departure. Our life in those early days was very simple, and one of the happiest imaginable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.