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...The OED also confirms that Lord Tennyson in On a Mourner (1865) wrote “. . . on thy heart a finger lays, Saying, ‘Beat quicker’”....
...As well as dusty floors, Esther has a young lodger, Jude (Matthew Tennyson), who speaks half in riddles and grows cannabis in the kitchen....
...Designed by Ney & Partners and William Matthews Associates, the project has cost £5m, half of it funded by a donation from Julia and Hans Rausing....
...Naturist camps reek of Kenneth Williams, Sid James and Barbara Windsor....
...“The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Lord Tennyson can also have that effect....
...The press published 23 of Morris’s own books, many medieval texts, and books by poets Morris admired — Keats, Shelley, Tennyson and Swinburne — and the monumental Chaucer....
...Tennyson is responsible for this, for King Arthur and Tintagel had not become a cult before he wrote Idylls of the King.”...
...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....
...This belief was made clear in Ricks’s majestically annotated edition of Tennyson’s poems, produced in his early career....
...Gideon Mantell’s 1846 Thoughts on Animalcules references William Beckford’s Vathek, which she describes as “a popular contemporary oriental tale”....
...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....
...The Victorians are over-represented – is John William Waterhouse’s mawkish, over-literal painting based on Tennyson’s poem “The Lady of Shalott” really Britain’s favourite work of art?...
...There were black leather editions of the complete poems of William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson, with gilded leaves, which looked as if they had been awarded as school prizes or given as improving...
...In the late summer sun, it resembles William Blake’s “bar of gold”....
...The bones of the last Tasmanian aboriginals, William Lanne and Truganini, were also publicly displayed. It took 100 years for Truganini’s bones to be, as she wished, cremated and committed to the sea....
...Both hold up strongly among a nice group of drawings by such as Walter Crane (illustrations from The Faerie Queene) and Millais (illustrating Tennyson)....
...In “Study for Mariana” (1850), he condenses and arches the body of Tennyson’s jilted heroine into a single, highly charged serpentine gesture of sensuality mingled with frustration....
...When the farmer and journalist William Cobbett trotted into the Surrey village of Hindhead, on one of the journeys that came to form his book Rural Rides in 1822, he described it as “that miserable hill,...
...The white north has thy bones,” says Tennyson’s poem on Franklin’s memorial in Westminster Abbey....
...Yet, there was wisdom in Tennyson’s words. Who can say he was wrong beyond debate? That would be a sorry world indeed.”...
...Previous holders of the role include William Wordsworth, Alfred Tennyson and John Betjeman....
...Based surprisingly on a William Saroyan story, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s film narrates a domestic tragedy, transplanted to rural Russia, a variation on the concept of children as hostages to fortune....
...The Quickening Maze By Adam Foulds Jonathan Cape, £12.99 It takes courage to write a novel about two of Britain’s best-known poets – John Clare and Alfred Lord Tennyson – and their encounter in an Epping...
...In eight chapters, Mullan lends clarity to the anonymous past of authors such as Defoe, Swift and Tennyson....
...‘William McTaggart – A Scottish Impressionist’ is at The Fleming Collection, London W1, until December 15. Tel 20 7409 5730...
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