Evidence: | From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home:
'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the study [...] and I had him to myself for two or three hours. We smoked, and he talked of metaphysics, and poetry, and religion, his own life, and Hallam, and all the poems [...] Then we went down to the drawing-room where the rest were, and he read his poetry to us till the clock said twelve -- "Locksley Hall," "Sir Galahad," pieces of "Maud" (which he specially likes to read), and some of his dialect poems. He said, by the way, in reading "Locksley Hall," that the verse beginning
'Love took up, etc
'was the best simile he ever made; and that a certain line in "The Gardener's daughter" were the ones on which he most piqued himself.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1882 and 31 Dec 1884 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | night | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Isle of Wight specific address: Farringford |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Alfred Tennyson |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 6 Aug 1809 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Hallam Tennyson Emily Tennyson Phillips Brooks Mary Boyle and niece (Audrey Boyle) 'Mr Lushington' |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Alfred Tennyson |
Title: | 'dialect poems' |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 22980 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Hallam Tennyson | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1897 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 296 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son (London, 1897), 2, p. 296, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22980, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
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