Alfred Tennyson

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

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Literary responses Cecil Frances Alexander
Tennyson is reputed to have envied CFA the writing of The Burial of Moses, as well as The Legend of Stumpie's Brae.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Critic Séan McMahon believes the latter ballad to be the best...
Publishing Isabella Banks
Heywood and Son , the Manchester publishers whom IB had known since childhood and who were issuing a collected edition of her works, published her new novel More than Coronets (titled from a poem by...
Author summary Charlotte Barnard
CB was a balladeer and poet who composed music for songs written by herself and by others such as Alfred Tennyson and Charlotte Brontë . Over the span of eleven years she composed about a...
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 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SB 's first-drafted novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, remained unpublished until after his death.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...
Intertextuality and Influence Isabella Beeton
Notwithstanding the putative focus on management, the bulk of the 44-chapter book is taken up with discussion of food, from the chapters on Arrangement and Economy of the Kitchen and Introduction to Cookery to the...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Isa Blagden
A Model and a Wife has a principal cast of three: John Herbert, a solitary English painter living in Rome in ill health; Nell Spencer, a young English heiress (once an abandoned orphan in India...
Intertextuality and Influence Isa Blagden
The final line invokes Wordsworth 's The Female Vagrant, andIB also echoes Thomas Hood 's Bridge of Sighs and the more general iconography of the fallen woman. This treatment of what it meant...
Intertextuality and Influence Mathilde Blind
At this date MB 's favourite poets (Shelley , Byron , Tennyson ) were all male.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
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Intertextuality and Influence Marjorie Bowen
MB recalls being influenced at an early age by her enjoyment of Tennyson 's Idylls of the King, Wilde 's Picture of Dorian Gray, the novels of Sir Walter Scott , and Richardson
Friends, Associates Mary Boyle
MB met Alfred Tennyson ; he became a good friend, and following the death of her close friend Lady Marian Alford in 1888 he sent her the poem To Mary Boyle.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Boyle
MB 's niece Audrey married Hallam Tennyson , son of Alfred Tennyson .
The Trustees of FreeBMD,. FreeBMD. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/.
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray.
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Textual Production Mary Boyle
Sometime after 1864 MB worked together with Tennyson , Landor , and Wordsworth in a miscellany encouraged by Lord Northampton (brother of her friend Lady Marian Alford, and son of the remarkable poet Margaret, Lady Northampton
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB infused a touch of poetry more literally by frequent allusion to works by Tennyson , including Mariana, The Deserted House, and The Lotos-Eaters. Her trademark use of other authors' texts as...

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.