Copyright

Charles Tennyson Turner

Published On

2024-03-21

Page Range

pp. 35–36

Language

  • English

Print Length

2 pages

3. On the Statue of Lord Byron by Thorwaldsen in Trinity College Library, Cambridge

  • Charles Tennyson Turner (author)
Chapter of: Byron and Trinity: Memorials, Marbles and Ruins (pp. 35–36)

Chapter 3 reprints the sonnet ‘On the Statue of Lord Byron by Thorwaldsen, in Trinity College Library Cambridge’ written by Charles Tennyson Turner, elder brother of the more famous Lord Alfred. It includes a note on the author derived from the anthology Trinity Poets, ed. by Angela Leighton and Adrian Poole (Manchester: Carcanet, 2017).

Contributors

Charles Tennyson Turner

(author)

Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879) was an English poet and elder brother of Alfred Lord Tennyson. The two attended Trinity College, Cambridge together. After graduating, Turner pursued a life in the church―acting as the vicar of Grasby, Lincolnshire from 1836 until his death. Influenced by Byron at an early age, Turner published a considerable body of poems, writing a total of 350 sonnets over the course of his life. Some of his more notable publications include Sonnets, Lyrics and Translations (1873) and, co-authored book with his brother, Poems by Two Brothers (1827).