CHAPTER II.
THE CAMBRIDGE PRIZE POEM, "TIMBUCTOO."
It was apparently not long after the publication of their joint volume that Charles and Alfred Tennyson removed to Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] where, in the summer of 1829, they formed a friendship with another young student of the same college, Arthur Henry Hallam,[2] the son of Hallam the historian,
- ↑ Frederick Tennyson, the eldest of the seven brothers, was already at Trinity when Charles and Alfred joined the College. He gained the prize for a Greek poem on Egypt in 1828, which was published in the 'Prolusiones Academicæ" of that year, with the following title, "Carmen Græcum Numismate Annuo dignatum et in curiâ Cantabrigiensi recitatum comitiis maximis A. D. MDCCCXXVIII., auctore Frederico Tennyson, Coll. SS. Trin. Alumno." More lately (1854) Frederick Tennyson has become known to the public as the author of a graceful volume of verses entitled "Days and Hours."
- ↑ Their friendship having been at Hallam's death of four years' duration and verging into a fifth autumn. (See "In Memoriam," xxii.)
