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Hallam Tennyson

 

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Plato  : Republic (Book II)

From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'Jan. 29th. [1889] Read the Vision of Er. He pitied Ardiaeus and said, "That is eternal hell which I do not believe." I read to him some of Book II. of the Republic.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Print: Book

  

Alfred Tennyson : 'Crossing the Bar'

'"Crossing the Bar" was written in my father's eighty-first year, on a day in October when we came from Aldworth to Farringford. Before reaching Farringford he had the Moaning of the Bar in his mind, and after dinner he showed me this poem written out. 'I said, "That is the crown of your life's work." He answered, "It came in a moment." He explained the "Pilot" as "That Divine and Unseen Who is always guiding us." 'A few days before my father's death he said to me: "Mind you put 'Crossing the Bar' at the end of all editions of my poems."'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Manuscript: Unknown

  

 : Tithes Bill

From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'A sudden attack of influenza had made my father ill again. Despite his growing weakness, his interest in the larger politics of the country never failed. Thus at his wish I read the new Tithes Bill to him'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Print: Unknown

  

Robert Southwell : 'The Burning Babe'

From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'March 8th. [1890] He made me read Southwell's "Burning Babe" to him out of Palgrave's Sacred Song.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Print: Book

  

Homer  : 

From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'March 17th. [1890] He [Tennyson] had all but recovered from his influenza, and sat in the sun in front of the study window, and read Jebb's Homer'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Print: Book

  

J. G. Frazer : The Golden Bough

From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'May 28th. [1890] G. F. Watts left today, having done a fine portrait of my father [...] At the request of Watts, my father read the "Ode on the Duke of Wellington" [...] I read "The Golden Bough" and the "Story of a Balaclava Hero" to Watts and my father, while the portrait was in hand.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Print: Book

  

 : "story of a Balaclava hero"

From Hallam Tennyson's journal, 1890-91: 'May 28th. [1890] G. F. Watts left today, having done a fine portrait of my father [...] I read "The Golden Bough" and the "Story of a Balaclava Hero" to Watts and my father, while the portrait was in hand.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Print: Unknown

  

William Shakespeare : 

From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we telegraphed for Sir Andrew Clark [?physician] [...] 'He read Job, and St Matthew, and Miss Swanwick's new book on Poets as the Interpreters of the Age. Sir Andrew arrived, and did not think so badly of him as I did. He and my father fell to discussing Gray's "Elegy" [...] 'On Friday my wife read him an article in the Times on the colonization of Uganda, for which he asked [...] 'On Monday morning at eight o'clock he sent me for his Shakespeare. I took him Steevens's edition, Lear, Cymbeline, and Troilus and Cressida, three plays which he loved dearly. 'He read two or three lines, and told Dr Dabbs that he should never get well again. We asked him later whether he felt better: he answered, "The doctor says I am." At his request I read some Shakespeare to him'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Print: Book

 

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