Hints and tips:
...The latter is an explicit take on “The Lady Of Shalott”, the endless weaving of Tennyson’s protagonist here turned into a metaphor for female creativity....
...The interiors and insouciant outfits in David Lynch’s 1990 TV series Twin Peaks inspired the show’s “slapped-on” lipstick, lumberjack-check jackets and crushed satin dresses, she said....
...She likes poetry; he’s descended from Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Their blood ratings seem to match; their racing pulses certainly do....
...Tennyson called the circular groupings of mushrooms, “the fairy footings on the grass.” Thought to be the work of dancing sprites, to step inside the circle was to fall under their spell....
...David Owen Norris accompanies with affection....
...Please post comments and questions at the end of this article, or email david.tang@ft.com...
...Your mother — er, I’m sorry, the assistant manager — is very taken with a hand-crafted shepherd’s hut that she saw David Cameron modelling....
...Photographs: Emily Whitfield-Wicks; Nigel Wallace-Iles; David Robertson/Alamy...
...Her work is notable both for its departure from the stiff formality of Victorian tradition and for the famous faces, including Alfred Tennyson and William Holman Hunt, who crop up in her albums....
...Tennyson’s “Crossing The Bar” recasts a boat trip from Salcombe as the gateway to the afterlife. But most of the arrangements are just a notch too safe....
...The premiere is directed by Robert Hastie and stars Matthew Tennyson and Andrew Sheridan....
...We are reminded, for example, that the photographic pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron was Tennyson’s close friend and neighbour on the Isle of Wight....
...Alfred Tennyson, for example, even after he had made his name as the new John Keats, could not afford to marry the woman he loved until he was 40....
...David Cameron is hoping to head to China within months after receiving an invitation from president Xi Jinping....
...David Martin, a professor of geography at the University of Southampton and a director of the ESRC’s UK Data Service, said many countries were already scrapping their censuses....
...From Prof David Smith....
...The veto brandished against last year’s fiscal pact by David Cameron, the prime minister, was a case in point....
...The programme notes for this revival make explicit how dramatic triptychs such as David Eldridge’s Under the Blue Sky or Simon Stephens’ Wastwater have been strongly informed by Robert Holman’s tripartite...
...A thoughtful reader* has written to the FT to point out the similarity to the Tennyson poem, Charge of the Light Brigade....
...Tennyson wrote that in spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love....
...She loves the work of British-Guyanese poets such as John Agard, David Dabydeen and Marc Matthews, and her rollicking children’s poetry is tinged by Louise Bennett and Amina Blackwood-Meeks of Jamaica....
...David Pilling is the FT’s Asia managing editor...
...The editor, Patrick Crotty, has commissioned marvellous translations from contemporary poets such as Michael Longley, Maurice Riordan, David Wheatley and Heaney....
...The lines of Tennyson that give the play its title sound still and small in such a world. Supported by Barclays Capital www.donmarwarehouse.com...
...David Owen is the FT’s sports writer ………………………………………………………....
International Edition