TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD.  Born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, Eng., Aug. 6, 1809;
  died at Aldworth House, near Haslemere, Surrey, Oct. 6, 1892.  Student
  at Cambridge 1828-31, but did not take a degree; trip to the Pyrenees
  with Arthur Hallam 1832; granted a pension of L200 by Peel 1845; after
  residing successively at Twickenham and Aldworth, he settled at
  Farringford, the Isle of Wight, 1853.  Became poet laureate 1850;
  raised to the peerage 1884.  Some of his well-known poems are “The Lady
  of Shalott,” “The Palace of Art,” “The Lotus Eaters,” “A Dream of Fair
  Women,” “Oenone,” “Morte d’Arthur,” “Dora,” “Ulysses,” “Locksley
  Hall,” “The Princess,” “In Memoriam,” “Maud,” “Ode on the Death of the
  Duke of Wellington,” “Charge of the Light Brigade,” “Idylls of the
  King,” “Enoch Arden,” and the plays “Queen Mary” and “Becket.” Life,
  not Death; Ring Out, Wild Bells; The Greatness of the Soul;
  Ulysses; Will.

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VAN DYKE, HENRY.  Born at Germantown, Pa., Nov. 10, 1852; graduated at
  Polytechnical Institute of Brooklyn 1869; A.B. degree from Princeton
  1873; M.A. degree from there 1876; graduated from Princeton
  Theological Seminary 1877; studied at University of Berlin 1877-9; has
  received honorary degrees from Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Union,
  Wesleyan, Pennsylvania, and Oxford.  Pastor of United Congregational
  Church, Newport, R.I., 1879-82, and of the Brick Presbyterian Church,
  New York, 1883-1900; professor of English literature at Princeton from
  1900; U.S. minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg 1913-17.  Author
  of “The Poetry of Tennyson,” “Sermons to Young Men,” “Little Rivers,”
  “The Other Wise Man,” “The First Christmas Tree,” “The Builders, and
  Other Poems,” “The Lost Word,” “Fisherman’s Luck,” “The Toiling of
  Felix, and Other Poems,” “The Blue Flower,” “Music, and Other Poems,”
  “Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land,” “The Mansion,” and “The Unknown
  Quantity.” Four Things, 3; Work, 65.

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WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF.  Born at Haverhill, Mass., Dec. 17, 1807; died
  at Hampton Falls, N.H., Sept. 7, 1892.  Of Quaker ancestory; father a
  poor farmer; as a boy he injured his health by hard work on the farm. 
  Taught school; attended Haverhill Academy for two terms 1827-8; edited
  Haverhill Gazette 1830; returned to the farm in broken health 1832. 
  Member of Massachusetts Legislature 1835-6.  An ardent opponent of
  slavery; edited the Pennsylvania Freeman 1838-40; several times
  attacked by mobs because of his views on slavery.  Leading writer for
  the Washington National Era 1847-57; contributed to the Atlantic
  Monthly 1857.  Some of his well-known poems are “Maud Muller,” “The
  Barefoot Boy,” “Barbara Freitchie,” “Snow-Bound,” and “The Eternal
  Goodness.” My Triumph, 90.