When our poet this week, Alfred Tennyson, was a young man at Cambridge, in 1829, he met the best friend he ever had in his life, Arthur Henry Hallam. This was at a time and in a place where friendship might be founded on more than merriment – though the boys had plenty of that, to be sure. They became friends because they shared the same intellectual …
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