Download or read book The Letters of Emily Lady Tennyson written by Baroness Emily Sellwood Tennyson Tennyson and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters in this volume, virtually all of them personal letters to close friends and relatives, cover nearly fifty years of Emily Tennyson's life, from shortly before her marriage right up to the week of her death. These letters tell the reader much about the Tennysons' acquaintances and their guests at Farringford and Aldworth, many of them among the literary and political luminaries of the day. But more importantly they comment on Tennyson himself and on daily life in the Tennyson household. Written with no thought of posterity, Lady Tennyson's letters reveal the domestic Tennyson, just as he was, for the first time. They reveal crucial information about Tennyson's reading and his intellectual and spiritual preoccupations; and they will contribute in time to a better understanding of the complexities and subtleties of Tennyson's verse. Of course, these letters also provide a running account of the life of Emily Tennyson herself, and they give a valid impression of the sort of woman she really was. Her common sense and her erudition, her tolerance and her boundless kindness, her appreciation and command of music and other arts, her social and political awareness, her persuasive effect on Tennyson's poetry, and her shaping influence on the lives of the people who knew her best--all these aspects of Emily Tennyson are displayed in her correspondence.
Download or read book Tennyson Transformed written by Julia Thomas and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennyson Transformed explores how the life and work of the great Victorian Poet Laureate was interpreted by artists, illustrators, photographers and other creative practitioners. This book evaluates several strands of Tennyson's influence on Victorian visual culture, and sheds new light on this crucial aspect of his influence.
Download or read book The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson 1851 1870 written by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987-07 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson showed the young manbecoming a poet and recorded the experiences--out of which so much of his poetrywas forged--that culminated in three personal triumphs: marriage, In Memoriam,and the Poet Laureateship. Volume IIreveals the gradual emergence of a new anddifferent Tennyson, moving confidentlyamong the great and famous--the intellectual, political, and artistic elite--yetremaining very much a son of Lincolnshire,whose childlike simplicity of manner strikesall who meet him. As a young man, he wasobliged to be paterfamilias of his father'sfamily; now he has a family of his own,with two sons reaching manhood, twohouses, and two lives, one in London andthe other at home. Through the letters we learn somethingabout his poetry (including "Maud," andThe Idylls of the King), much abouthis dealings with publishers, and evenmore about his travels--in Scotland,Wales, Cornwall, Norway, Switzerland,Auvergne, Brittany, the Pyrenees--and itis clear that all that he met became part ofhim and of his poetry. By the close of thisvolume he is one of the two or three mostfamous names in the English-speakingliterary world. The edition includes an abundance of letters to and about Tennyson as well as byhim, and its generous annotation has beencommended by reviewers for its range andwit.
Download or read book Thomas Woolner R A Sculptor and Poet written by Thomas Woolner and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tennyson and Mid Victorian Publishing written by Jim Cheshire and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Tennyson’s career was mediated, organised and directed by the publishing industry. Founded on neglected archival material, it examines the scale and distribution of Tennyson’s book sales in Britain and America, the commercial logic of publishing poetry, and how illustrated gift books and visual culture both promoted and interrogated the Poet Laureate and his life. Major publishers had become disillusioned with poetry by the time that Edward Moxon founded his business in 1830 but by the mid-1860s, his firm presided over a resurgence in poetry based on Tennyson’s work. Moxon not only orchestrated Tennyson’s rise to fame but was a major influence on how the Victorian public experienced the poetry of the Romantic period. This study reevaluates his crucial role, and examines how he repackaged poetry for the Victorian public.
Download or read book Tennyson and Thomas Woolner written by Leonée Ormond and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Uncollected Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne Vol 3 written by Terry L Meyers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three volumes of letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne add approximately 600 letters by this poet that were not available when Cecil Y. Lang published his six volume edition of Swinburne's letters. The volumes also contain a selection of several hundred other letters addressed to Swinburne.
Download or read book The Uncollected Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne written by Terry L Meyers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three volumes of letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne add approximately 600 letters by this poet that were not available when Cecil Y. Lang published his six volume edition of Swinburne's letters. The volumes also contain a selection of several hundred other letters addressed to Swinburne.
Download or read book Lady Tennyson s Journal written by Baroness Emily Sellwood Tennyson Tennyson and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of the poet laureate in 1892, Lady Tennyson spent most of her time assisting her son Hallam (second Baron Tennyson) with his prodigious task of preparing the Tennyson Memoir. Together she and Hallam collected, sorted, and assembled an extraordinary mass of materials related in various ways to Tennyson's life and works. Lady Tennyson gathered and inspected all extant letters to the poet, and she worked at recovering every available letter written by Tennyson, as well as the many letters she herself had written during forty-two years of married life. And, in addition to selecting and arranging hundreds of letters and other items for her son's convenience, Lady Tennyson prepared her own final Journal. From immediately after her marriage in June 1850 until shortly before her nearly fatal collapse in the autumn of 1874, Emily Tennyson kept a running account of life in the Tennyson home. Though she by no means made an entry for every day during that period of twenty-four years, certainly there are no sizable gaps, and she was particularly scrupulous in noting every occurrence of the slightest moment involving her husband. The epitome Journal put together after the poet's death is the product of a laborious combining of the several initial journals to form a more convenient and usable whole. Since Emily compiled her final Journal soley as a source of information for Hallam, one would suppose that she deleted certain items of highly personal material preserved in her antecedent diaries. Nonetheless, her Journal, as we have it, is a treasure trove of information about the Tennysons' daily life, and it enables us to see both the laureate and the entire Tennyson family circle more clearly than ever before. -- Introduction.
Download or read book Selected Letters written by Edward Lear and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Edward Lear's best know poems begins, "'How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!' / Who has written such volumes of stuff! / Some think him ill-tempered and queer, / But a few think him pleasant enough." As Vivien Noakes--author of the definitive biography of Lear--demonstrates in this remarkable collection of letters, it is indeed pleasant to know Mr. Lear. Though best known today for his volumes of Nonsense poetry and his classic work, "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat," Edward Lear in his time was considered the finest ornithological draftsman in Europe (the equal of Audubon) and a highly accomplished landscape painter. Acquainted with the Tennysons and members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he also corresponded with zoologists, politicians, peers, children. Indeed, his interests and travels were remarkably wide, and his collected letters range through a broad spectrum of Victorian life, from his early days as an ornithological draftsman, his eleven years in Rome, his return to England in 1850, his travels to remote parts of the world, and his retirement in San Remo. In addition to fascinating descriptions of the contemporary art world, his own painting and writing, and his voyages to far-flung places, the letters are filled with Lear's characteristic absurdities and Nonsense, often accompanied by whimsical pen-and-ink drawings of Lear and his beloved cat Old Foss. The only comprehensive collection of Lear's letters available, this charming volume will appeal to anyone who delights in the nonsensical or is curious about the lives of Victorian artists and writers.
Download or read book Alfred Tennyson written by Leonee Ormond and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-10-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his long working life, Tennyson was experimenting with new forms and subjects. Widely read in a range of disciplines, he responsed to many of the personalities, events and discoveries of the Victorian age. Still widely regarded as an apologist for the 'establishment', Tennyson was always an outsider. Scourged by reviewers, and haunted by his own nervous disposition, Tennyson endured years of despair. Even when the tide turned in 1850 Tennyson remained a stern critic of his contemporaries.
Download or read book Tennyson Research Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures Busts c in the National Portrait Gallery written by National Portrait Gallery (London) and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon written by Phyllis Weliver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving Prime Ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable musician, hostess of one of the most influential political salons in late-Victorian London, and probably the first female prime ministerial private secretary in Britain. Pivoting around Mary's initiatives, this intellectual history draws on a trove of unpublished archival material that reveals for the first time the role of music in Victorian liberalism, explores its intersections with literature, recovers what the high Victorian salon was within a wider cultural history, and shows Mary's influence on her father's work. Paying close attention to literary and biographical details, the book also sheds new light on Tennyson's poetry, George Eliot's fiction, the founding of the Royal College of Music, the Gladstone family, and a broad plane of wider British culture, including political liberalism and women, sociability, social theology, and aesthetic democracy.
Download or read book Pre Raphaelite Sculpture written by John Christian and published by Ben Uri Gallery & Museum. This book was released on 1991 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Francis Turner Palgrave written by Francis Turner Palgrave and published by London ; New York ; Bombay : Longmans, Green and Company. This book was released on 1899 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tennyson written by John Batchelor and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the poet is “acute in its examination of Tennyson’s character and his importance for Victorian culture” (The Times Literary Supplement). Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria’s favorite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. His ascendancy was neither the triumph of pure genius nor an accident of history: he skillfully crafted his own career and his relationships with his audience. Fame and recognition came, lavishly and in abundance, but the hunger for more never left him. Resolving never to be anything except “a poet,” he wore his hair long, smoked incessantly, and sported a cloak and wide-brimmed Spanish hat. Tennyson ranged widely in his poetry, turning his interests in geology, evolution, and Arthurian legend into verse, but much of his work relates to his personal life. The poet who wrote “The Lady of Shalott” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” has become a permanent part of our culture. This enjoyable and thoughtful new biography shows him as a Romantic as well as a Victorian, exploring both the poems and the pressures of his era, and the personal relationships that made the man.
