Robert P Crease reviews The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes Surrounded by science Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, in his library. Tennyson was well read on – and greatly inspired by – the science of his day. (Illustration by F Roberts from Great Men and Famous Women edited by Charles Horne, published by Selmar Hess, c.1900. Digitally cleaned by iStock/Pictore)"> Surrounded by science Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, in his library. Tennyson was well read on – and greatly inspired by – the science of his day. (Illustration by F Roberts from Great Men and Famous Women edited by Charles Horne, published by Selmar Hess, c.1900. Digitally cleaned by iStock/Pictore) Alfred Tennyson was “the only poet since the time of Lucretius who has taken the trouble to understand the work and tendency of the men of science” said the English biologist Thomas Huxley on the occasion of Tennyson’s burial in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey on 12 October 1892.…