Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Alfred Tennyson

 

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1850-1899'That time Lord Tennyson was delightful - kind and friendly and full of stories, talking a great deal, and in the best...Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred, Lord TennysonFuneral OdePrint: Book
'Communication between these poets and myself was instantaneous. I saw with delighted amazement that all poetry had be...Dorothy Burnham Alfred TennysonMore d'ArthurPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Alfred TennysonPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson. My mother, all agitated in defence of her id...Mary Thomas Alfred TennysonLocksley HallPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lord Alfred TennysonPoems, Chiefly LyricalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that beco...V.W. Garratt Alfred Lord TennysonPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti...Edwin Muir Alfred Lord Tennyson'The Lotus Eaters'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw...Philip Inman Alfred Lord TennysonPrint: Book
1850-1899'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...Chester Armstrong Alfred Lord TennysonPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Through the Women's Co-operative Guild, Deborah Smith] began reading poetry and, at age fifty one, discovered her ow...Deborah Smith Alfred Lord Tennyson'Break, break, break'Print: Book
1850-1899'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha...Robert White Alfred Lord TennysonPrint: Book
1900-1945'From a classroom library of perhaps two dozen volumes [Richard Hillyer] borrowed one by Tennyson, simply because it h...Richard Hillyer Alfred Lord TennysonPrint: Book
1900-1945Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Alfred TennysonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight ...Rose Macaulay Alfred Lord TennysonPrint: Book
1850-1899Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust...James Elroy Flecker Alfred Lord TennysonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso...Christiana Thompson Alfred TennysonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso...Alfred Baker Strettell Alfred TennysonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve...Alice Thompson Alfred, Lord TennysonunknownUnknown
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...questionaire respondent Alfred Lord Tennyson[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...questionaire respondent Alfred, Lord Tennyson[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in pris...Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell, later Baron Shinwell Alfred, Lord Tennyson[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Newman Flower, born in 1879, was running from the classroom at Weymouth College to his housemaster's in a snowstorm w...school class at Weymouth CollegeAlfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899'In 1880 Tennyson attempted to interest Henry Irving in his play "The Cup" ... [he] "read in a monotone, rumbling on a...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe CupUnknown
1850-1899'In 1876 Aubrey de Vere aranged for Alice Thompson ... and her sister Elizabeth a visit to [Tennyson at] Aldworth ... ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Passing of ArthurUnknown
1850-1899' ... [over] a weekend at Aldworth ... [Margot Tennant] told Tennyson how very handsome he was, and, after his after-d...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899'Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading "Maud" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.'Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899'Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading "Maud" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.'Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899'Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading "Maud" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.'Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899' ... in November 1876, when a guest of Gladstone at Hawarden, Tennyson read the whole of his new play, "Harold" (1877...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonHaroldUnknown
1850-1899'When the Duke of Argyll ... visited Farringford, Tennyson read his "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" (1852...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOde on the Death of the Duke of WellingtonUnknown
1850-1899'Occasionally the discussions became acrimonious. My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tenny...Mrs Hughes Alfred, Lord TennysonLocksley HallPrint: Book
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?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go...Leslie Stephen Alfred TennysonPrint: Book
1850-1899"This bit of Tennyson sticks in my head; so I write it down: - 'All along the valley where the waters flow / I walked ...Leslie Stephen Alfred TennysonIn the Valley of the CauteretzPrint: Book
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit...Ralph Finn Alfred Lord TennysonPrint: Book
1900-1945'When, during the 1926 miners' strike, [G.A.W. Tomlinson] read 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', an obvious political...G.A.W. Tomlinson Alfred Lord TennysonThe Charge of the Light BrigadePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...Helen Crawfurd Alfred Lord TennysonThe PrincessPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne...Constance Maynard Alfred TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained ...Joan Evans Alfred TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
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"Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicac...Tiddy Alfred Tennysonpoems including The RevengePrint: Book
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"Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicac...Mary Stocks and siblingsAlfred Tennysonpoems including The RevengePrint: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten...Stella Davies Alfred, Lord TennysonPrint: Book
1900-1945'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria...William John Brown Alfred, Lord TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ...John Masefield Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Dying SwanPrint: Book
1850-1899'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggli...Maud du Puy Alfred Lord TennysonPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi...Richard Litchfield Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
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Henry James to E. C. Stedman, 1 September 1875: "My pretentions, in attenpting to talk about Tennyson [in review of Qu...Henry James Alfred TennysonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: ...Hilary Spalding Alfred, Lord TennysonLotos Eaters, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading Tennyson's "Summer Evening", which is a lovely poem, full of pictures.'Hilary Spalding Alfred, Lord TennysonSummer EveningPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Elizabeth Boott 30 October 1878, on lunch that day with Tennyson at his home, : "He read out 'Locksley ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonLocksley HallUnknown
1800-1849?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the busin...William Edwin Adams Alfred, Lord Tennyson[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening we all went over to the Camerons. Several Pre-Raphaelite artists were there to meet Tennyson; Hunt an...Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred, Lord TennysonMorte d'ArthurUnknown
1850-1899'Went to hear Mr and Mrs Wigan read Tennyson and "the Rivals" at Apsley House'.Mr and Mrs WiganAlfred Lord TennysonunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Tennyson's new vol. of poems and particularly like "The first Quarrel".'George Eliot [pseud] Alfred Lord Tennyson[poems including 'The First Quarrel']Print: Book
1850-1899Harriet Martineau to E. J. Furnival, 5 October 1851, thanking him for a copy of Tennyson's "In Memoriam": 'Like most o...Harriet Martineau Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam A. H. H.Print: Book
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Harriet Martineau to E. J. Furnival, 5 October 1851, thanking him for a copy of Tennyson's [italics]In Memoriam[end it...Harriet Martineau Alfred TennysonThe PrincessPrint: Book
1850-1899'On the day that the bloody battle of Gravellote was fought [August 18, 1870] they [Hardy and Emma] were reading Tenny...Thomas Hardy and his wife Emma GiffordAlfred Tennyson[Unknown - Poetry]Unknown
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'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w...Joseph Stamper Alfred, Lord Tennyson[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ...Norman Nicholson Alfred, Lord TennysonMaud [and other poems?]Print: Book
1850-1899'... such cursed nonsense as the last thing in Good Words. Oh! Alfred Tennyson! Alfred Tennyson, oh!'Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred, Lord Tennyson'1865-1866'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'By the way what awful trash Tennyson's serial poetry is just now. To think of the man who wrote the 'Lotus Eaters' 'S...Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred TennysonThe Lotus Eaters/St Simeon StylitesPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have just been reading "Maud". Do not fear, dear; it has not been unpleasant to me; I see and know and accept all t...Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred, Lord TennysonMaud; A MonodramaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?24 August 1836: 'You have not read all Tennyson's poems -- neither have...Elizabeth Barrett Alfred Tennyson'The Mermaid'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 15 May 1842: 'I ought to be thanking you for your great kindness about this divine ...Elizabeth Barrett Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 July 1842: 'I send this with Tennyson's new vol -- The alterations are insane....Robert Browning Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 December 1842: 'Do you really object to the re-iteration of [italics]O...Elizabeth Barrett Alfred Tennyson'Oriana'Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 13 December 1842: 'I read Tennyson. "Locksley Hall" is very fine; but s...Mary Russell Mitford Alfred Tennyson'Locksley Hall'Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 11 July 1844: 'I read Tennyson with deep & high delight, yet with the mourn...Harriet Martineau Alfred TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899'I tried to read Tennyson?s Ode on the Dook of Wellington (which is the finest lyrical poem in the language in case yo...Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred, Lord TennysonOde on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I like your expression of 'an unwritten tragedy'. It quite answers to the sadness which fills my heart as I look on s...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Deserted House, The'Print: Book
1800-1849[Gaskell tells John Forster of Samuel Bamford who knows many of Tennyson's poems by heart and recites them, but does n...Samuel Bamford Alfred, Lord TennysonOenonePrint: Book
1800-1849[Gaskell tells John Forster of Samuel Bamford who knows many of Tennyson's poems by heart and recites them, but does n...Samuel Bamford Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Sleeping Beauty, The'Print: Book
1800-1849''Tennyson' has arrived safe, without a shadow of damage and thanks without end for it. I have been half-opening the p...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alfred, Lord Tennyson[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849[Gaskell describes handing over the gift of a signed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford] 'I said, 'Look at the...Samuel Bamford Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Sleeping Beauty, The'Print: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 14 June 1845: 'When I ask my wise self what I really do rem...Robert Browning Alfred TennysonTimbuctoo
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 February 1850: 'Such a magical act as conjuring up for me th...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAlfred Tennyson(Probably) 'The Bugle Song' (opening 'The splendour falls')Unknown
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 November 1850: 'I have seen extracts in the Examiner from Ten...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850: 'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] O...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAlfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850: 'As to "In Memoriam," I have seen it, I have ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 16-19 December 1850, on 18 December: 'We have been...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the way do you like Maud. I cannot say I do. It strikes me that if John Smith or Bill Jones had written it, they...Emily De Quincey Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include three stanzas (beginning 'Old warder of these ...Edward Morgan Forster Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Tennyson, 'A Farewell'.Edward Morgan Forster Alfred Tennyson'A Farewell'Print: Book
1800-1849'Matthew Arnold told G. L. Craik that when, as a youth, he first read "Timbuctoo" he prophesied the greatness of Tenny...Matthew Arnold Alfred TennysonTimbuctooPrint: Book
1800-1849S. T. Coleridge on Tennyson's Poems. Chiefly Lyrical (1830): '"I have not read through all Mr Tennyson's poems, whi...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alfred TennysonPoems, Chiefly LyricalPrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Merivale [...] wrote to [W. H.] Thompson [...]: '"Though the least eminent of the Tennysonian Rhapsodists,...Charles Merivale Alfred Tennyson'The Lotos-Eaters'Print: Book
1800-1849'[Edward] Fitzgerald writes on "The Lady of Shalott": '"Well I remember this poem, read to me, before I knew the au...Edward Fitzgerald Alfred Tennyson'The Lady of Shalott'Print: Book
1800-1849'[W. H.] Brookfield writes [to Tennyson] from Sheffield: '"You and Rob Montgomery are our only brewers now! A propo...James Montgomery Alfred TennysonsonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Morte d'Arthur'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'The Day-Dream'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'The Lord of Burleigh'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Dora'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'The Gardener's Daughter'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Edmund Lushington writes] 'At Xmas 1841 I went for a few days' holiday from Glasgow to Kent and spent the time mos...Edmund Lushington Alfred Tennyson'In Memoriam' versesManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[The Dean of Westminster writes] 'In a letter from Arthur Stanley, written from Hurstmonceux Rectory in the Septemb...Julius Hare Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Samuel Rogers to Alfred Tennyson, 17 August 1842: 'Every day I have resolved to write and tell you with what deligh...Samuel Rogers Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Carlyle to Alfred Tennyson, 7 December 1842: 'I have just been reading your Poems; I have read certain of th...Thomas Carlyle Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849['Miss Fox' writes, on Tennyson's 1848 tour of Cornwall]: 'At one place [...] where he arrived in the evening, he c...Cornish 'grocers and shopkeepers' and working peopleAlfred TennysonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Gaskell to John Forster, on presentation of inscribed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford, 7 December...Samuel Bamford Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Gaskell to John Forster, on presentation of inscribed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford, 7 December...Samuel Bamford Alfred Tennyson'The Sleeping Beauty'Print: Book
1850-1899Aubrey de Vere on time spent with Alfred Tennyson in London during 1850: 'Few of the hours I spent with Alfred suri...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennysonstanzas from In MemoriamManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Aubrey de Vere on time spent with Alfred Tennyson in London during 1850: 'Few of the hours I spent with Alfred suri...Aubrey de Vere Alfred Tennysonstanzas from In MemoriamManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry Hallam to Alfred Tennyson, on reading In Memoriam: 'I know not how to express what I have felt [...] I do not...Henry Hallam Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 17 November 1852: 'I have read your ode ("Death of the Duke of Wellington") [...] ...Henry Taylor Alfred TennysonOde on the Death of the Duke of Wellington Print: Unknown
1850-1899'On Jan. 10th 1855 my father had "finished, and read out, several lyrics of Maud.'"Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaud (sections)Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Tennyson's journal of 1855: 'October 1st. [...] I read "Maud" to five or six people at the Brownings (on Sept. 28...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
1850-1899'The following tribute was received [by Tennyson] from Scutari: '"We had in hospital a man of the Light Brigade, on...anon Alfred TennysonThe Charge of the Light BrigadePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899'I shall never forget his [Tennyson's] last reading of "Maud," on August 24th, 1892. He was sitting in his high-backed...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 31 July 1855: 'I thank you much for sending me "Maud." I have only read it twice, ...Henry Taylor Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
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'When Fanny Kemble heard that my father read his "Maud" finely, she wrote: "I do not think any reading of Tennyson's c...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Curse of BoadiceaUnknown
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'Mrs Vyner, a stranger,' to Alfred Tennyson, from River, New South Wales, 1855: 'I fancy a poet's heart must be so ...Mrs Vyner Alfred TennysonPrint: Book
1850-1899'In April [1857] a report reached us that old Tom Moore was dying. A friend writes: "This darling old poet is only jus...Thomas Moore Alfred TennysonpoemsPrint: Book
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Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but...Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood Alfred TennysonPrint: Book
1850-1899'In July [1858] we stayed at Little Holland House, Kensington, with the Prinseps; and here my father began "The Fair M...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'The Grandmother'Unknown
1850-1899'The sudden death of Henry Hallam was a great grief to my father, for the historian had been a good friend through thi...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam A. H. H.Unknown
1850-1899W. M. Thackeray to Alfred Tennyson, [September-] October [1859]: 'I owe you a letter of happiness and thanks. Sir, ...William Makepeace Thackeray Alfred TennysonIdylls of the KingPrint: Book
1850-1899W. M. Thackeray to Alfred Tennyson, [September-] October [1859]: 'I owe you a letter of happiness and thanks. Sir, ...William Makepeace Thackeray Alfred Tennyson'The splendour falls...'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th...Thomas Babington Macaulay Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1850-1899The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th...Thomas Babington Macaulay Alfred TennysonThe Maid of AstolatPrint: Book
1850-1899Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859: 'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with ...Benjamin Jowett Alfred TennysonThe Maid of AstolatPrint: Book
1850-1899Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859: 'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with ...Benjamin Jowett Alfred TennysonThe Lily MaidPrint: Book
1850-1899H. R. H. Prince Albert to Alfred Tennyson, 17 May 1860: 'Will you forgive me if I intrude upon your leisure with a ...Prince Albert Alfred TennysonIdylls of the KingPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Duke and Duchess [of Argyll] spent some days at Farringford [...] My father [...] read aloud his "Boadicea," whic...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonBoadiceaManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Herbert Spencer to Alfred Tennyson [1855]: 'I happened recently to be re-reading your Poem "The Two Voices," and co...Herbert Spencer Alfred TennysonThe Two VoicesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Jan. 19th. [1862] Princess Alice wrote to my father about the Dedication of the "Idylls" to [her father] the Prince C...Queen Victoria Alfred TennysonDedication, Idylls of the KingPrint: Book
1850-1899The Crown Princess of Prussia to Alfred Tennyson, 23 February 1862: 'The first time I ever heard the "Idylls of the...Prince Albert Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to the Duke of Argyl, 3 March 1862: 'Your letter a little dismayed me, for, as you in the prior one...Queen Victoria Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1800-1849Aubrey De Vere on his first 'acquaintance' with Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly Lyrical: 'I remember most of them by hear...Aubrey de Vere and sisterAlfred TennysonPoems, Chiefly LyricalPrint: Book
1850-1899From William Allingham's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64): 'Oct. 3rd, 1863. Saturday. We drove to Farringford ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899'A district visitor was delivering tracts among a large meeting of some poor folk to whom she had lately read part of ...anon Alfred TennysonEnoch ArdenPrint: Book
1850-1899Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 13 October 1864: 'I have been two months away, and only just find your book now...Robert Browning Alfred TennysonEnoch ArdenPrint: Book
1850-1899Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 13 October 1864: 'I have been two months away, and only just find your book now...Robert Browning Alfred TennysonThe Northern Farmer Print: Book
1850-1899W. G. Clark, on a reader of Tennyson's 'The Northern Farmer': '[?W. H.] Thompson has been staying at Fryston, where...anon Alfred TennysonThe Northern FarmerManuscript: Unknown, In hand of 'Mr Creyke.'
1850-1899'May 2nd. [1866] Marlborough [...] In the evening the Bradleys had a large dinner-party. [George] Bradley [headmaster]...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Northern FarmerPrint: Book
1850-1899'May 3rd. [1866] After dinner the Upper Sixth came in, and at their petition [Tennyson] read "Guinevere," refusing how...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too c...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Northern FarmerPrint: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too c...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe GrandmotherPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1866: 'We took Lionel [son] to school at Hastings [...] We then left for P...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonIn the Valley of CauteretzUnknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1868: 'Dr Hook asked A. to read "Enoch Arden." He replied he could not to-...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonEnoch ArdenPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1868: 'Dr Hook asked A. to read "Enoch Arden." He replied he could not to-...Dr Hook Alfred TennysonEnoch ArdenPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal: 'Sept. 9th. [1868] A. read me a bit of his "San Graal," which he has now begun. '...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe San GraalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal: 'Sept. 9th. [1868] A. read me a bit of his "San Graal," which he has now begun. '...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe San GraalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal: 'Sept. 23rd. [1868] We took Lionel [son] to Eton, and left him in Mr Stone's house. ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe San GraalManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945[the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte...John Betjeman Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Ulysses'Print: Book
1900-1945[the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte...John Betjeman Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Morte d'Arthur'Print: Book
1900-1945'Oddly, I remember little of what must have been read to us in the 'poetry' lessons. Apart from a fragment or two of s...Charles Causley Alfred Lord TennysonPrincess, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, January 1869: 'A. read "The Holy Grail" to the Bradleys, explaining the realism and ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Holy GrailManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Feb. 13th. A. read what he had done of the birth and marriage of "Arthur."'Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'birth and marriage of "Arthur"'Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Before the end of February A. had read me all "The Coming of Arthur" finished...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Coming of ArthurManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'May 18th. A. read the "San Graal." I doubt whether the "San Graal" would have...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson"The San Graal"Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'I once met Tennyson at dinner at the Conservative Club,...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during t...Emily Tennyson Alfred TennysonIdylls of the KingUnknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'May 21st. He [Tennyson] read me his "Tristram" ("Last Tournament"), the plan ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Tristram'Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Aug. 31st. [...] A. drove to the Lewes'. He read to them, and last of all at ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Guinevere'Unknown
1850-1899Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson (1873): 'I have a word to say about "Gareth" which your publisher sent me as "...Edward Fitzgerald Alfred TennysonGarethPrint: Book
1850-1899'The first meeting after the formation of the [Metaphysical] Society took place at the Deanery, Westminster, June 2nd,...Mr Knowles Alfred TennysonThe Higher PantheismUnknown
1850-1899Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, 9 July 1875: 'I had bought your Play a few days before your gift-copy reached...Edward Fitzgerald Alfred TennysonQueen MaryPrint: Book
1850-1899Sir Henry Bedingfield, Bart., to Alfred Tennyson, 20 August 1875: 'As a great admirer of your genius, I eagerly rea...Sir Henry Bedingfield, Bart. Alfred TennysonQueen MaryPrint: Book
1850-1899Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 21 December 1876: 'True thanks again, this time for the best of Christmas prese...Robert Browning Alfred TennysonHaroldPrint: Book
1850-1899Aubrey de Vere to Alfred Tennyson, 28 December 1876: 'I do not like to defer longer sending you my most cordial tha...Aubrey de Vere Alfred TennysonHaroldPrint: Book
1850-1899Aubrey de Vere to Alfred Tennyson, 28 December 1876: 'I do not like to defer longer sending you my most cordial tha...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonHaroldUnknown
1850-1899A. P. Stanley to Alfred Tennyson, 25 December 1876: 'I will gladly contrive if you wish to transmit your poem [Haro...A. P. Stanley Alfred TennysonHaroldPrint: Book
1850-1899G. H. Lewes to Alfred Tennyson, 18 June 1877: 'We have just read "Harold" (for the first time) and "Mary" (for the ...G. H. Lewes and George EliotAlfred TennysonHaroldPrint: Book
1850-1899G. H. Lewes to Alfred Tennyson, 18 June 1877: 'We have just read "Harold" (for the first time) and "Mary" (for the ...G. H. Lewes and George EliotAlfred TennysonQueen MaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'The play [Becket] is so accurate a representation of the personages and of the time, that J. R. Green said that all h...J. R. Green Alfred TennysonBecketPrint: Book
1850-1899The Right Honourable J. Bryce to Alfred Tennyson: 'As I have been abroad for some time it was only a little while a...J. Bryce Alfred TennysonBecketPrint: Book
1850-1899The Right Honourable J. Bryce to Alfred Tennyson: 'As I have been abroad for some time it was only a little while a...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonBecketUnknown
1850-1899Lady Cardwell to Alfred Tennyson, 9 April 1878: 'It may interest you to know another instance of the solace you hav...C. E. Gordon Alfred TennysonPrint: Book
1850-1899'My father's first meeting with the Princess of Wales took place at Mrs Greville's in Chester Square. The Princess ask...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonWelcome to AlexandraUnknown
1850-1899'My father was fond of asking Joachim [celebrity violinist] to play to him in his own house. One particular evening I ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe RevengeUnknown
1850-1899[Mary Brotherton writes] 'I told him [Tennyson] the story [of the eighteenth-century woman soldier Phoebe Hessel] one ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Bones'Unknown
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of a voyage on the Pembroke Castle (September 1883): '[18 September] In response to ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson"The Bugle Song"Unknown
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of a voyage on the Pembroke Castle (September 1883): '[18 September] In response to ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson"The Grandmother"Unknown
1850-1899From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home: 'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonLocksley HallUnknown
1850-1899From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home: 'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonSir GalahadUnknown
1850-1899From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home: 'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaud (extracts)Unknown
1850-1899From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home: 'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'dialect poems'Unknown
1850-1899'1888. At Easter Miss Mary Anderson [actress] was with us again and he [Tennyson] read to her, whom he admired much, a...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Leper's BrideManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Tennyson's notes on Demeter and Other Poems: 'A lady tells me that when she read "The Northern Cobbler" at a v...anon Alfred TennysonThe Northern CobblerPrint: Book
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'"Crossing the Bar" was written in my father's eighty-first year, on a day in October when we came from Aldworth to Fa...Hallam Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Crossing the Bar'Manuscript: Unknown
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'My father considered Edmund Lushington's translation into Greek of "Crossing the Bar," one of the finest translations...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Crossing the Bar'Unknown
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'May 28th. [1890] G. F. Watts left today, having done a fine portrait of ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOde on the Duke of WellingtonUnknown
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's journal, 1890-91: 'Aug. 6th. [1890] Aldworth. The Duchess of Albany came to luncheon with us...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1850-1899'In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had join...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOde on the Duke of WellingtonUnknown
1850-1899'In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had join...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonDedication, OEnoneUnknown
1850-1899'In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had join...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOEnoneUnknown
1850-1899'In January [1892] Dr Hubert Parry stayed with us at Farringford, for he wanted to hear my father read "The Lotos-Eate...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Lotos-EatersUnknown
1850-1899'In January [1892] Dr Hubert Parry stayed with us at Farringford, for he wanted to hear my father read "The Lotos-Eate...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOde on the Duke of WellingtonUnknown
1850-1899'In March [1892] he [Tennyson] recovered his voice [which had failed him during January] [...] He read "The Passing of...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Passing of ArthurUnknown
1850-1899'On one of these June mornings [in 1892], Miss L----, who was a stranger to us, but whose brother we had known for som...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaud (extracts)Unknown
1850-1899'On one of these June mornings [in 1892], Miss L----, who was a stranger to us, but whose brother we had known for som...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Spinster's Sweet-ArtsUnknown
1850-1899'On one of these June mornings [in 1892], Miss L----, who was a stranger to us, but whose brother we had known for som...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonEnoch Arden (extracts)Unknown
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's funeral: 'Many were seen reading "In Memoriam" while waiting before ...Mourners at funeral of Alfred TennysonAlfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'Under the date of Sunday, 20th October, 1850, I find the following [journa...John Tyndall Alfred TennysonPoems including 'The Two Voices'Print: Book
1800-1849John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'You were not born when the influence [of Alfred Tennyson] in my case began...Thomas Hirst Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'You were not born when the influence [of Alfred Tennyson] in my case began...Thomas Hirst and John TyndallAlfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'It may be worth while to mention here how I first made the acquaintance of...John Tyndall Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
1850-1899John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'It may be worth while to mention here how I first made the acquaintance of...John Tyndall Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
1850-1899John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'In the year 1885 [...] were published Tiresias, and Other Poems, by Alfred...John Tyndall Alfred TennysonTiresias and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hall...Francis Turner Palgrave Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hall...Francis Turner Palgrave Alfred TennysonThe PrincessPrint: Book
1800-1849From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hall...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonSongs for inclusion in new edition of The PrincessManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Some time in 1852 Tennyson read over to me his "Ode on...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOde on the Duke of WellingtonUnknown
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On October 27th, 1886, he read aloud to me that piece ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonLocksley Hall Sixty Years AfterUnknown
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'In Nov. 1888 I visited Aldworth shortly after death ha...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonUlyssesUnknown
1850-1899Bishop Westcott to Hallam Tennyson: 'When "In Memoriam" appeared, I felt (as I feel if possible more strongly now) ...Brooke Foss Westcott Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899Bishop Westcott to Hallam Tennyson: 'When "In Memoriam" appeared, I felt (as I feel if possible more strongly now) ...Brooke Foss Westcott Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899John Ruskin to Alfred Tennyson, from Strasburg (1860): 'I have had the "Idylls" in my travelling desk ever since I ...John Ruskin Alfred TennysonIdylls of the KingPrint: Book
1850-1899From Alfred Tennyson's letter-diary to his family (1868): 'November. The Hollies, Clapham Common. I have sent the "...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennysonpoem on the Holy GrailManuscript: Unknown
1850-18993 November 1857: 'In the evening we all went over to the Camerons [i.e. Charles Hay, and Julia Margaret Cameron]. S...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty year...Zoe Procter Alfred, Lord Tennyson[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give...Florence Reynolds Alfred, Lord TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give...Elizabeth Edminson Alfred, Lord TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give...T.T. Cass Alfred, Lord TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give...Allan Goadby Alfred, Lord TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give...John Ridges Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Sir Galahad'Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give...John Ridges Alfred, Lord Tennyson'St Agnes' Eve'Print: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...Oscar Wilde Alfred, Lord TennysonComplete PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...Oscar Wilde Alfred TennysonMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1900-1945'I stared at the sea far below, and thought of our English master declaring how clever Tennyson had been in saying of ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh Alfred Tennyson'The Eagle: A Fragment'Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh Alfred Tennyson'Ulysses'Print: Book
1850-189917 July 1859: 'I sat, very sad, in the garden [at Exeter House], took up Tennyson's Guinevere, and was engrossed wi...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book

 

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