Evidence: | 'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and they read Dante's Inferno together. Whewell's Plurality of Worlds he also carefully studied. "It is to me anything," he writes, "but a satisfactory book. It is inconceivable that the whole Universe was created merely for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate sun."' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Sep 1854 and 31 Dec 1854 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Isle of Wight specific address: Farringford House |
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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) |
Emily Tennyson |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Homer |
Title: | 'description of Hades' |
Genre: | Classics, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | In the Odyssey; read in reader's own (oral) translation |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 21474 | |
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: | 1 | |
Page: | 379 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son (London, 1897), 1, p. 379, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21474, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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