The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief by Holmes, Richard
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief by Holmes, Richard

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize - In this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author...
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The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief by Holmes, Richard

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief

$87.99 $50.00
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief by Holmes, Richard

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief

$87.99 $50.00
Author: Richard Holmes
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize - In this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, discovers in Young Tennyson an astonishingly magnetic and mercurial personality, a secretly expressive and highly emotional man haunted by the great intellectual and scientific issues of his time.

Tennyson rose to eminence as rapid and revolutionary discoveries were being made in the fields of biology, astronomy, geology, and marine science. It was a period of immense change akin to our own. For the first time, people were pursuing answers to questions that had felt previously unknowable--about biological evolution, the notion of a godless, unpitying universe, and of planetary extinction. These were as terrifying to Tennyson as climate catastrophe is to us today. It forced many to grapple with their understanding of the known world and their place within it and fostered a growing tension between religion and science.

Tennyson's work during these years is suffused with strangely modern magic, and in Holmes' extraordinary biography, we witness Tennyson wrestling with mind-altering ideas about geology and deep time, the vastness, beauty, and terror of the new cosmology, and the challenges of social revolution. Tennyson's wild imagination and deep engagement with these concepts helped him emerge as the poetic voice of his generation--and he remains an inspiration for our own age.

Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 02/10/2026
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9780307379672


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2025

About the Author
RICHARD HOLMES is the author of The Age of Wonder, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Books Critics Circle Award, and was one of the New York Times Book Review's Best Books of the Year in 2009. Holmes' other books include This Long Pursuit, Footsteps, Sidetracks, Shelley: The Pursuit (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Coleridge: Early Visions (winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award), Coleridge: Darker Reflections (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (winner of the James Tait Black Prize). He was awarded the OBE in 1992. He lives in England.
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