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Tennyson find

Wednesday 05 October 1994 00:02 BST
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An unknown poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson has been discovered in Lincolnshire in a box of items belonging his descendants. The poem, Johnson's Ode To Autumn, is written in Latin and is signed Alfred Tennyson, September 1825, Somersby, Lincolnshire. Experts at the Tennyson Research Centre in Lincoln confirmed that the work was genuine and that it was written by the poet when he was 16.

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