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01-16-2005, 07:13 AM | #1 |
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The Alfred Lord Tennyson Fan Club
Ok, I've asked around and I found some Tennyson fans among you. So here is the thread where you can talk about your favorite Tennyson poems and discuss his work in general.
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01-16-2005, 02:49 PM | #2 | |
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My favorite Tennyson poem is called The Miller's Daughter, here it goes(continued in the next post):
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01-16-2005, 02:51 PM | #3 | |
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(Continued; italics mine to indicate "the songs")
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01-16-2005, 03:26 PM | #4 |
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He's on my list to read, what do you reccommend I start with?
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01-16-2005, 03:50 PM | #5 |
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Well, look here. I'd recommend Amphion, Edward Gray, Ulysses, Lilian, Claribel, Isabel and The Lady of Shalott.
After you get familiar with his style, you should try his longer poems like the one I posted just above and Locksley Hall and finally, before you switch to another poet read his magnum opus: In Memoriam A. H. H. an elegy for his friend in 131 parts (which I have yet to read) Last edited by Beren3000 : 01-16-2005 at 03:52 PM. |
01-16-2005, 06:10 PM | #6 |
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Well, I should say begin with In Memoriam , if only the introduction. This poem made such an impact on me that I memorized the opening in HS and have inscribed its inital words on pottery and used it in memorials to friends who have died.
So potent is the opening and so utterly human! Strong Son of God, Immortal Love, Whom we that have not seen thy face By faith and faith alone embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. Thine are these orbs of light and shade! Thou madest life in man and brute. Thou madest death, and, lo Thy foot Is on the skull which Thou hast made! as is the ending of another of his great poems, This is how the world ends. This is how the world ends. Not with a bang But with a whimper. The Charybdis of hope and the Scylla of despair! What a poet!
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02-03-2006, 11:52 PM | #7 |
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More on Tennyson
Does anyone know the name of that extremely popular-at-the-time novelist that Tennyson hated so much? Mrs Willman, or something like that? She apparently wrote quite a few very bad novels that sold in tremendous numbers, like a kind of 19th century Danielle Steel.
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02-04-2006, 12:05 AM | #8 |
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No, not at all. It couldn't have been Jane Austen, could it? Well, post it here when it comes to you, because now you've got ME wondering! Welcome 2 the Moot, by the way, Brian. Happy to see a new mooter!
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