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The Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson was born the same year as what two other great thinkers?

Alfred Lord Tennyson was born in 1809, the same year as Charles Darwin and Edgar Allen Poe. Tennyson’s poetry betrayed his fascination with the emerging sciences of his day and the roots of his own fractured faith. (Read on Nautilus)


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