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In the dark days after Hallam’s death, Tennyson continued with a programme of self-education. He bought a number of dictionaries and grammars, with the intention of studying German, Italian and Greek. Robert Tennant reported that ‘although much broken in spirits [he] is yet able to divert his thoughts from gloomy brooding, and keep his mind in activity’ (Memoir, I, 109). Tennyson’s plan was to devote the mornings to subjects such as history, chemistry, botany, electricity, animal physiology and mechanics, and the afternoons to languages. Sunday was dedicated to the study of theology, and the evenings set aside for poetry.
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Ormond, L. (1993). The Unsettled Years. In: Alfred Tennyson. Macmillan Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22998-7_4
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