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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'You were not born when the influence [of Alfred Tennyson] in my case began. Fifty years ago, in the sixth chapter of Carlyle's...Thomas Hirst and John TyndallAlfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'It may be worth while to mention here how I first made the acquaintance of "Maud." Rachel had come to the Haymarket Theatre, f...John Tyndall Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
1850-1899John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'It may be worth while to mention here how I first made the acquaintance of "Maud." Rachel had come to the Haymarket Theatre, f...John Tyndall Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
1850-1899John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'In the year 1885 [...] were published Tiresias, and Other Poems, by Alfred Lord Tennyson. For a copy of this remarkable volume...John Tyndall Alfred TennysonTiresias and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hallam, youngest son to the great historian [...] I was ...Francis Turner Palgrave Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hallam, youngest son to the great historian [...] I was ...Francis Turner Palgrave Alfred TennysonThe PrincessPrint: Book
1800-1849From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hallam, youngest son to the great historian [...] I was ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonSongs for inclusion in new edition of The PrincessManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Some time in 1852 Tennyson read over to me his "Ode on the Duke of Wellington," discussing various points ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOde on the Duke of WellingtonUnknown
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On October 27th, 1886, he read aloud to me that piece of almost too terrible beauty, the "Locksley Hall Si...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonLocksley Hall Sixty Years AfterUnknown
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'In Nov. 1888 I visited Aldworth shortly after death had suddenly carried off my dearly-loved adventurous b...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonUlyssesUnknown
1850-1899Bishop Westcott to Hallam Tennyson: 'When "In Memoriam" appeared, I felt (as I feel if possible more strongly now) that the hope of man lies in the historic realizatio...Brooke Foss Westcott Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899Bishop Westcott to Hallam Tennyson: 'When "In Memoriam" appeared, I felt (as I feel if possible more strongly now) that the hope of man lies in the historic realizatio...Brooke Foss Westcott Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899John Ruskin to Alfred Tennyson, from Strasburg (1860): 'I have had the "Idylls" in my travelling desk ever since I could get them across the water, and have only not w...John Ruskin Alfred TennysonIdylls of the KingPrint: Book
1850-1899From Alfred Tennyson's letter-diary to his family (1868): 'November. The Hollies, Clapham Common. I have sent the "Grail" to be [italics]printed[end italics] [...] I r...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennysonpoem on the Holy GrailManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Alfred TennysonMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1900-1945'I stared at the sea far below, and thought of our English master declaring how clever Tennyson had been in saying of his soaring eagle 'the wrinkled sea beneath him craw...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh Alfred Tennyson'The Eagle: A Fragment'Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh and schoolmatesAlfred Tennyson'Ulysses'Print: Book
1850-189917 July 1859: 'I sat, very sad, in the garden [at Exeter House], took up Tennyson's Guinevere, and was engrossed with it. Arthur is the noblest creature that ever live...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 27 August 1850:

'I have read Tennyson's "In Memoriam," or rather part of it; I closed the book when I had got about ha...		Charlotte Brontë Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam A. H. H.Print: Book
1900-1945'... that cold, dismal golf links that always reminds me of the moorland in "Locksley Hall". Talking about "Locksley Hall", I have discovered a tattered copy of Tenny...Clive Staples Lewis Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam and other poemsPrint: Book


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