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This morning’s run.
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This morning’s run.
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"The Lady of Shallott," John William Waterhouse, 1888.
Although he was never actually a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which split up while he was a child, Waterhouse (1849-1917) adopted their style with enthusiasm and is now strongly associated with them.
He loved painting scenes from Shakespeare and from famous poems, and this is from a popular poem by Tennyson, about a woman who is under a curse and can only look at the world through a mirror, or else she would die. She spends her time weaving a tapestry of what she sees. Finally, she decides to face the world, no matter the consequences, and sets off in a boat to see Camelot...and then to die.
The colors and subject matter are definitely Pre-Raphaelite, and it's also very naturalistic, with the plants and birds on the river. She sits on the tapestry she wove, which drags in the water. She has a crucifix and three candles on the boat; two of them are out already, indicating her coming death. Her expression is vulnerable and sad; she knows she will die, but feels she has to see the world for herself.
It's an iconic and popular painting, and gorgeous to boot.
From the Tate Britain, London.
#Art #JohnWilliamWaterhouse #PreRaphaelites #WomenInArt #Tennyson #LadyOfShallott #KingArthur #ArthurianTales
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"The Lady of Shallott," John William Waterhouse, 1888.
Although he was never actually a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which split up while he was a child, Waterhouse (1849-1917) adopted their style with enthusiasm and is now strongly associated with them.
He loved painting scenes from Shakespeare and from famous poems, and this is from a popular poem by Tennyson, about a woman who is under a curse and can only look at the world through a mirror, or else she would die. She spends her time weaving a tapestry of what she sees. Finally, she decides to face the world, no matter the consequences, and sets off in a boat to see Camelot...and then to die.
The colors and subject matter are definitely Pre-Raphaelite, and it's also very naturalistic, with the plants and birds on the river. She sits on the tapestry she wove, which drags in the water. She has a crucifix and three candles on the boat; two of them are out already, indicating her coming death. Her expression is vulnerable and sad; she knows she will die, but feels she has to see the world for herself.
It's an iconic and popular painting, and gorgeous to boot.
From the Tate Britain, London.
#Art #JohnWilliamWaterhouse #PreRaphaelites #WomenInArt #Tennyson #LadyOfShallott #KingArthur #ArthurianTales
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‘Circumstance’ by Alfred Tennyson
#poem #poetry #english #literature #tennyson
https://www.deadpoetsdaily.com/p/alfred-tennyson-poem-circumstance
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‘Circumstance’ by Alfred Tennyson
#poem #poetry #english #literature #tennyson
https://www.deadpoetsdaily.com/p/alfred-tennyson-poem-circumstance
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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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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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#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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🇺🇦 #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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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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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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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. -
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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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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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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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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.” -
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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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
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thx to @sil for combining that intense #tennyson #theLadyofShalott with the #OpenWeb - really great :) #SotB2024
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With apologies to #Tennyson , this crepe myrtle is ‘red in leaf and bloom’! #bloomscrolling
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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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"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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"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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Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Samuel Laurence, c.1910s - Matthews RP Postcard
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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
