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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Edmund Lushington writes] 'At Xmas 1841 I went for a few days' holiday from Glasgow to Kent and spent the time mostly at Boxley, where A. T. was now settled with his ...Edmund Lushington Alfred Tennyson'In Memoriam' versesManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[The Dean of Westminster writes] 'In a letter from Arthur Stanley, written from Hurstmonceux Rectory in the September of 1834, he says to his friend W. C. Lake (afterw...Julius Hare Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Samuel Rogers to Alfred Tennyson, 17 August 1842: 'Every day I have resolved to write and tell you with what delight I have read and read again your two beautiful volu...Samuel Rogers Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Carlyle to Alfred Tennyson, 7 December 1842: 'I have just been reading your Poems; I have read certain of them over again [goes on to praise Poems further, citi...Thomas Carlyle Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849['Miss Fox' writes, on Tennyson's 1848 tour of Cornwall]: 'At one place [...] where he arrived in the evening, he cried, "Where is the sea? Show me the sea." So after ...Cornish 'grocers and shopkeepers' and working peopleAlfred Tennyson Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Gaskell to John Forster, on presentation of inscribed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford, 7 December 1849: 'I have not yet taken my bonnet off after ...Samuel Bamford Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Gaskell to John Forster, on presentation of inscribed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford, 7 December 1849: 'I have not yet taken my bonnet off after ...Samuel Bamford Alfred Tennyson'The Sleeping Beauty'Print: Book
1850-1899Aubrey de Vere on time spent with Alfred Tennyson in London during 1850: 'Few of the hours I spent with Alfred surive with such a pathetic sweetness and nearness in my...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennysonstanzas from In MemoriamManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Aubrey de Vere on time spent with Alfred Tennyson in London during 1850: 'Few of the hours I spent with Alfred surive with such a pathetic sweetness and nearness in my...Aubrey de Vere Alfred Tennysonstanzas from In MemoriamManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry Hallam to Alfred Tennyson, on reading In Memoriam: 'I know not how to express what I have felt [...] I do not speak as another would to praise and admire: few of...Henry Hallam Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 17 November 1852: 'I have read your ode ("Death of the Duke of Wellington") [...] It has a greatness worthy of its theme and an absolu...Henry Taylor Alfred TennysonOde on the Death of the Duke of Wellington Print: Unknown
1850-1899'On Jan. 10th 1855 my father had "finished, and read out, several lyrics of Maud.'"Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaud (sections)Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Tennyson's journal of 1855: 'October 1st. [...] I read "Maud" to five or six people at the Brownings (on Sept. 28th).'Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
1850-1899'The following tribute was received [by Tennyson] from Scutari: '"We had in hospital a man of the Light Brigade, one of the few who survived that fatal mistake, the Ba...anon Alfred TennysonThe Charge of the Light BrigadePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at his request read "Maud." It appears that the poor ma...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899'I shall never forget his [Tennyson's] last reading of "Maud," on August 24th, 1892. He was sitting in his high-backed chair, fronting a southern window which looks over ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 31 July 1855: 'I thank you much for sending me "Maud." I have only read it twice, but I have already a strong feeling of what it is [....Henry Taylor Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'When Fanny Kemble heard that my father read his "Maud" finely, she wrote: "I do not think any reading of Tennyson's can ever be as striking and impressive as that "Curse...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Curse of BoadiceaUnknown
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1850-1899		'Mrs Vyner, a stranger,' to Alfred Tennyson, from River, New South Wales, 1855: 'I fancy a poet's heart must be so large and loving that he can feel for and forgive ev...Mrs Vyner Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
1850-1899'In April [1857] a report reached us that old Tom Moore was dying. A friend writes: "This darling old poet is only just alive, mind and body. X goes over frequently to se...Thomas Moore Alfred TennysonpoemsPrint: Book


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