Alfred Tennyson

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Standard Name: Tennyson, Alfred
Used Form: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Connections

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Wealth and Poverty Geraldine Jewsbury
Mary Aitken Carlyle and John Forster aided in the campaign. The twenty-two names in support of her application included Alfred Tennyson , Thomas Carlyle , John Ruskin , and Thomas Hardy . Harriet and George Grote were also involved.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
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Textual Production Ruth Padel
RP joined with five other poets in Machinery of Grace. A Tribute to Michael Donaghy (1954-2004), published by the Poetry Society in 2005. That same year she read some of her poems for the...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC borrowed a title from Tennyson for The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (in which a film is being shot at St Mary Mead, where Miss Marple lives), the first of her three Marple...
Textual Production Julia Stretton
In a one-volume anonymous Hurst and Blackett reprint of 1860 the title-page quotes Tennyson on the rosebud garden of girls. The book is dedicated to Margaret, my sister, feeling sure, that the seven other sisters...
Textual Production Patricia Highsmith
PH said her first push in the direction of writing came when I was nine years old. My English teacher gave a typically painful assignment, a composition on the subject of How I Spent My...
Textual Production Charlotte Barnard
These two songs are the only works by CB published under her real name: some time after this, she adopted the pseudonym Claribel. She may have taken this pseudonym from Alfred Tennyson 's poem...
Textual Production Monica Dickens
This was ironical, since her aim had been to produce something new and different.
Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann.
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She titled the book with the name of Tennyson 's heroine who waits interminably in her moated grange for a...
Textual Production Samuel Beckett
SB 's first-drafted novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, remained unpublished until after his death.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Its allusive title (making fun of Tennyson 's poem A Dream of Fair Women, which itself is...
Textual Production Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There followed, also in the Athenæum, a review of Wordsworth 's poems in August 1842. As well as these, EBB provided both critical contributions on Carlyle and Tennyson , and material gleaned from her...
Textual Production Alice Meynell
AM wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie 's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning (1903),...
Textual Production Adelaide Procter
Here AP 's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:...
Textual Production Anna Swanwick
She dedicated it to James Martineau in honour of their friendship of sixty years.
Swanwick, Anna. Poets the Interpreters of their Age. George Bell.
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Her preface says: To the learned I have nothing to offer, but hopes to appeal to students and readers. She...
Textual Production Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Francesca Elgee set the tone for her correspondence with John Hilson in her earliest surviving letter, writing your Gods are my Gods about her favourite modern living poets, Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett , who...
Textual Production Elizabeth Bishop
Advising a would-be poet, EB wrote: Read a lot of poetry—all the time—and not 20th-century poetry. Read Campion , Herbert , Pope , Tennyson , Coleridge —anything at all almost that's any good, from the...
Textual Production Mary Linskill
She took her title from a line in Tennyson 's Break, break, break, a poem which powerfully conveys a sense of desolation and despair. She dedicated her novel to Mrs Lupton , her former...

Timeline

By 3 March 1470: Sir Thomas Malory, a political prisoner in...

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By 3 March 1470

Sir Thomas Malory , a political prisoner in London, most probably in the Tower, finished compiling and writing his collection of legendaryArthurian romances, Le Morte d'Arthur.

February 1778: Franz Anton Mesmer, inventor of animal magnetism,...

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February 1778

Franz Anton Mesmer , inventor of animal magnetism, arrived in Paris to promote his theory.

March 1827: Alfred and Charles Tennyson published Poems,...

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March 1827

Alfred and Charles Tennyson published Poems, by Two Brothers.

September 1830: Alfred Tennyson published Poems, Chiefly...

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September 1830

Alfred Tennyson published Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, his first solo volume publication, containing Mariana.

August 1831: Arthur Henry Hallam anonymously published...

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August 1831

Arthur Henry Hallam anonymously published On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry, and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson in the Englishman's Magazine.

December 1832: Alfred Tennyson published a collection of...

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December 1832

Alfred Tennyson published a collection of Poems which included The Lotos Eaters, Oenone, A Dream of Fair Women, and The Lady of Shalott.

14 May 1842: Alfred Tennyson published two volumes of...

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14 May 1842

Alfred Tennyson published two volumes of Poems.

1845: William Edmonstoune Aytoun and Theodore Martin...

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1845

William Edmonstoune Aytoun and Theodore Martin published the satirical A Book of Ballads, as edited by Bon Gaultier.

November 1847: Alfred Tennyson published The Princess: A...

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November 1847

Alfred Tennyson published The Princess: A Medley.

1 June 1850: Alfred Tennyson anonymously published his...

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1 June 1850

Alfred Tennyson anonymously published his poetic sequence In Memoriam.

9 December 1854: Alfred Tennyson's famous poem about the Crimean...

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9 December 1854

Alfred Tennyson 's famous poem about the Crimean War, The Charge of the Light Brigade, appeared in The Examiner.

July 1855: Alfred Tennyson published Maud and Other...

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July 1855

Alfred Tennyson published Maud and Other Poems.

June 1859: Alfred Tennyson published the first four...

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June 1859

Alfred Tennyson published the first four poems in his sequence The Idylls of the King.

February 1860: Alfred Tennyson published Tithonus in the...

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February 1860

Alfred Tennyson published Tithonus in the Cornhill Magazine.

By 13 August 1864: Alfred Tennyson published the narrative poem...

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By 13 August 1864

Alfred Tennyson published the narrative poemEnoch Arden.

Texts

Victoria, Queen, and Alfred Tennyson. Dear and Honoured Lady: The Correspondence Between Queen Victoria and Alfred Tennyson. Editors Dyson, Hope and Charles Tennyson, Macmillan, 1969.
Tennyson, Alfred. Tennyson’s Poetry. Editor Hill, Robert W., W. W. Norton, 1971.