#tennyson — Public Fediverse posts
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when #science and the #humanities weren't distinct and separate -
A #Poet of Science Who Shook Faith in God https://nautil.us/a-poet-of-science-who-shook-faith-in-god-1279489
#Tennyson #poetry #Victorian #romantic #expression #observation
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#HashtagGames
#MetropolitanABookOrPlayIdyllings of the King at Traffic Lights
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tennyson & Mr. Carmack:
🎵 Tuesdayhttps://djacesmooth.bandcamp.com/track/tennyson-mr-carmack-tuesday-smooth-era-remix
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Tennyson Memorial Cross, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, c.1905-10 - Welch Postcard
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At Eastbourne #OnThisDay 1892, Lewis Carroll recorded in his journal just four words: "Death of Alfred #Tennyson." It was a personal blow to him as well as a national event, as Ray Dyer explains: https://victorianweb.org/authors/carroll/tennysonchron1.html
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Holmes's extraordinary biography allows us to witness Tennyson wrestling with mind-altering ideas of geology and deep time, the vastness, beauty and terror of the new cosmology, and the challenges of social revolution. And how these inspired him to grapple with the idea of human mortality, the threat of suicide and depression, the struggle between love and loneliness, agnosticism and belief. -
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He also shared his visions and anxieties with contemporary writers and social commentators like Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens, and poets like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Edgar Allan Poe. Tennyson's work during these 'vagrant years' is suffused with an unsuspected and strangely modern magic. -
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes, 2025
In this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes reawakens this somnolent Victorian figure, brings him back to sparkling life, and unexpectedly transforms him.
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I've been lucky recently in finding things hidden within the leaves of old books (not money, unfortunately! 🙂). I discovered this clipping from an old newspaper (signed in 1949) in this 1962 edition of The Pre-Eminent Victorian by Joanna Richardson. Anyone good at reading old signatures? 🧐 #Tennyson #AlfredLordTennyson #Books #Biographies #History #Poetry
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This poem by Tennyson is a classic New Year's Eve poem, filled with good wishes and hopeful pleas.
Read the following blog post to learn more about its structure and metre, and you can also do a simple vocabulary exercise!
https://grammaticus.blog/2023/01/04/tennyson-ring-out-wild-bells/
#poem #poetry #englishliterature #tennyson #newyear #englishteacher #learningenglish #scansion
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Snooze of the Light Brigade
“Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to nap reclined.
Into the valley of Sleep
Snored the six hundred.” -
Charge Of The Heavy Metal Brigade
#MetalASongOrPoem #ChargeOfTheLightBrigade #Tennyson
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Today's poem:
The Charge of the Light Brigade
- by Alfred Tennysonhttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/762306084718428160/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade?source=share
#cavalry #Balaklava #battle #war
#EpicPoetry #Tennyson #blunder #stupidity #Crimea -
Today's poem:
The Charge of the Light Brigade
- by Alfred Tennysonhttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/762306084718428160/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade?source=share
#cavalry #Balaklava #battle #war
#EpicPoetry #Tennyson #blunder #stupidity #Crimea -
Today's poem:
The Charge of the Light Brigade
- by Alfred Tennysonhttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/762306084718428160/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade?source=share
#cavalry #Balaklava #battle #war
#EpicPoetry #Tennyson #blunder #stupidity #Crimea -
Today's poem:
The Charge of the Light Brigade
- by Alfred Tennysonhttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/762306084718428160/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade?source=share
#cavalry #Balaklava #battle #war
#EpicPoetry #Tennyson #blunder #stupidity #Crimea -
Today's poem:
The Charge of the Light Brigade
- by Alfred Tennysonhttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/762306084718428160/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade?source=share
#cavalry #Balaklava #battle #war
#EpicPoetry #Tennyson #blunder #stupidity #Crimea -
thx to @sil for combining that intense #tennyson #theLadyofShalott with the #OpenWeb - really great :) #SotB2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_of_Shalott -
With apologies to #Tennyson , this crepe myrtle is ‘red in leaf and bloom’! #bloomscrolling
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"Ring in the common love of good. // Ring out old shapes of foul disease."
Tennyson got it right in this poem, didn't he. Thanks for posting these verses today.
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"Amy Replies"
Written upon learning that #Tennyson’s Locksley Hall (or its successor, Loxley), is now “occupied by a Staffordshire County Council special school for boys with learning difficulties.”
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Samuel Laurence, c.1910s - Matthews RP Postcard
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still wearing the jumper.
Today not such a good day.
I am worrying about the dog.
I follow him about when he is restless, and when he lies down and falls asleep every magazine I pick up to read seems to contain a dog or a horse coming to the end of their natural lives, and there have been more than a few stray tears run down my face, until I gave up reading.
Was Tennyson really right to say that it was better to have loved and lost?
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#Babylon5 revisit continues, with added Tennyson, just before Sheridan aims to force the two ancient races to face one another instead of using them as proxies:
"We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"
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“Forward, into the fog!”
Could Santa save the day?
How though Rudolph knew not
His nose had glowed red.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and fly.
Into the foggy evening
Rode the nine reindeer.#HashTagGames #Santa #Rudolph #ChargeOfTheLightBrigade #Tennyson @hashtaggames
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade -
Last one from this set, a little homage to dark academia and fall love.
#fall #maples #tennyson #poetry #vintage #darkacademia #mastoart #Photography #tennyson #leaves #leafpeeping
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CW: Beans, poetry
Half a tin, half a tin,
Half a tin onward,
All in the saucepan of Beans
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On the 4th January 1483, Francis Lovell was created Viscount Lovell, however, his estates including his home in Oxfordshire, and titles would be the subject of an attainder in 1487 following the Yorkist defeat at the Battle of Stoke Field. One of his other titles lost after the battle was Baron d'Ayncourt.
The d'Ayncourt barony would lay in abeyance until the 17th century when it was granted to Francis Leke. Charles Tennyson, the uncle of Alfred, Lord Tennyson would try unsuccessfully to get his hands on it in the 18th century.
#15thcentury #warsoftheroses #francislovell #enobled #battleofstokefield #medieval #battlefields #attainted #localhistory #tennyson #oxfordshire
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The Croatian cellist #Hauser performing the #Benedictus from “The Armed Man” by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. The work is subtitled "A Mass for Peace" and is dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo War. The words of several writers feature in the work including #Kipling, #Tennyson and Sankichi Toge, who survived the Hiroshima bombing. The mass ends hopefully with Tennyson's poem "Ring Out, Wild Bells"
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Looking across fields at Blankney in Lincolnshire.
The ancient family of d’Eyncourt held their manor here at Blankney in Lincolnshire from the 11th century until the 15th when it passed to the Lovell family. The land returned to the crown and the barony went into its first abeyance when Francis Lovell was attainted following his disappearance after the Battle of Stoke Field in 1487.
It was the barony, in its second abeyance in the 18th century, that the Tennysons family at Tealby had their eye on.
#lincolnshire #blankney #11thcentury #15thcentury #localhistory#familyhistory #medieval #manor #warsoftheroses #lovell #attainted #abeyance #battleofstokefield #tennyson
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The Tennyson family at Tealby did have a very high opinion of themselves, but they did, in fact, have a justifiable, if somewhat distant connection to nobility in the form of the ancient families of d’aincourt and Lovel which they cashed in on. From 1835 they used Tennyson d’Eyncourt as their surname.
In celebration of this they had this beautiful window added to the east end of the village church. This was done not only to mark themselves out above the rest, but so they could distinguish themselves from Alfred’s lot at Somersby.
#19thcentury #lincolnshire #tealby #lincolnshirevillages #church #churcharchitecture #stainedglass #tennyson #oneupmanship #daincoirt #lovel #nobility #alfredlordtennyson #poet #somersby #lincolnshirefamilies
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The parish church in the Lincolnshire village of Tealby is dedicated to All Saints and is made out of local ironstone which gives it its glorious orange colour.
Like many of our country's churches, All Saints has been restored, but its origins are in the 12th century, however parts of the tower appear to be Norman. In the 19th-century poet Alfred Tennyson’s estranged family added to and were involved in the refurbishment of the inside of the church, in fact everywhere you look they get a mention.
#12thcentury #lincolnshire #village #lincolnshirewolds #tennyson #church #churchesoflincolnshire #churcharchitecture #localhistory
