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The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes #joyce piety-puncturing bestSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A Book of the Year in the Times; Telegraph; Spectator; Financial Times; Observer; Waterstones and Daunt Books A dazzling new biography of young Tennyson by the prize winning, bestselling author of The Age of Wonder. Alfred Lord Tennyson is now remembered if he is remembered at all as the gloomily bearded Poet Laureate, author of such clanking Victorian works as The Charge of the Light Brigade, and the mournful