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unusual facts about Tennyson


Tennyson, Texas

Named for Alfred, Lord Tennyson by an English settler who arrived in 1882, the community received a post office in 1892.


2010 Brisbane International

It was the 2nd edition of the tournament and was played at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson.

2011 Brisbane International

It was the 3rd edition of the tournament and took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson.

2011 Brisbane International – Men's Singles Qualifying

It was the 3rd edition of the tournament and took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson, Brisbane.

2012 Brisbane International

It was the 4th edition of the tournament and took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson.

2013 Brisbane International

It was the 5th edition of the tournament and took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson.

2014 Brisbane International

It was the sixth edition of the tournament and took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson.

AHH

Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), English poet, the subject of Alfred Tennyson's poem In Memoriam A.H.H.

Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens

Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (28 October 1845 – 2 January 1912) was the sixth child and fourth son of British novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine.

An Eton Poetry Book

The editors introduce this section by admitting that "the trochaic metre has not by itself played an important part in our literature ... Tennyson wrote 'Locksley Hall' in trochaics because Mr Hallam told him that the English people liked the metre, but it is very doubtful if he was right."

Antoine Galland

The most famous and eloquent encomiums of The Thousand and One Nights - by Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey, Stendhal, Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, Newman - are from readers of Galland's translation.

Arthur Bourchier

He also acted with Charles Wyndham at the Criterion Theatre and travelled to America to appear with Augustin Daly's company, for whom he later played the part of Robin Hood in Tennyson's The Foresters at its London premiere.

Arthur Somervell

He achieved success in his own day as a composer of choral works such as The Forsaken Merman (1895), Intimations of Immortality (which he conducted at Leeds Festival in 1907), and The Passion of Christ (1914) but is now chiefly remembered for his song cycles such as Maud (after Tennyson, 1898) and the first known setting (1904) of A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad.

Barbara Bain

In 2008, co-starring with her daughter Juliet Landau, Bain voiced the character of Verdona Tennyson in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", an episode of Ben 10: Alien Force.

Battle of Leyte Gulf

The last three words—probably selected by a communications officer at Nimitz's headquarters—may have been meant as a loose quote from Tennyson's poem on "The Charge of the Light Brigade", suggested by the coincidence that this day, 25 October, was the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Balaclava—and was not intended as a commentary on the current crisis off Leyte.

Chapel House

Chapel House, Twickenham, Greater London, occupied at one time by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Charles Tennyson

Charles Tennyson Turner, his nephew and brother of the poet Lord Tennyson

Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt

He was the younger son of George Tennyson, who bought the family seat of Beacons, in the village of Tealby, Lincolnshire, along with 2,000 acres (8 km²) of land, and came in time to own a large part of the village.

As a result there was bad blood between the penurious Tennysons of Somersby, where George Clayton Tennyson had the living until he succumbed to drink and depression, and the opulent Tennysons of Beacons, who fancied themselves not only the wealthy but the socially superior side of the family.

Coke County, Texas

Eighteen hundred ninety two saw the beginning of the town of Tennyson, named in honor of the British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Emilia Tennyson

Tennyson is featured as a character in the story "Conjugial Angel" by A. S. Byatt in the book Angels and Insects.

Emily Tennyson, Lady Tennyson

Emily first met Alfred Tennyson during childhood, but they did not become close until much later (when Tennyson's brother, Charles, married Emily's younger sister, Louisa), and did not marry until 1850.

Felicia Hemans

For surviving women poets, like Britons Caroline Norton and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Americans Lydia Sigourney and Frances Harper, the French Amable Tastu and German Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, and others, she was a valued model, or (for Elizabeth Barrett Browning) a troubling predecessor; and for male poets including Tennyson and Longfellow, an influence less acknowledged.

Floating Down to Camelot

The title is drawn from Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott, in which while floating down to Camelot the Lady of Shalott apparently dies of a broken heart, caused by the rejection of Sir Lancelot.

The novel includes many quotations, not only from Tennyson but also from Thomas Hood, William Thackeray, and W. H. Auden.

Frederick Sandys

Study for Vivien depicts Sandy's lover, Keomi Gray, as Vivien of Tennyson's poem Idylls of the King.

Horace Tennyson O'Rourke

Horace Tennyson O'Rourke, (1880–1963) was Dublin city architect for Dublin Corporation, now, Dublin City Council from 1922-1945.

If I Die Young

Perry is holding a book containing poems by Tennyson, including The Lady of Shalott, which the book is opened to at the end of the music video.

James Shotton

The title of this painting is taken from the ninth book of Tennyson's “Idylls of the King”, the tale of Pelleas and Ettarre.

John Brannen

It was through his maternal grandfather - a man of stature with a predilection for classic poets, especially Tennyson and Longfellow - that Brannen first came into touch with his passion for lyricism and, subsequently, music.

John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley

He at once disclosed his identity, and received the congratulations of his friends, among whom were Tennyson, Browning and Gladstone.

Lionel Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson

In 1921, England having lost six Test matches in succession to the Australians under Warwick Armstrong, Tennyson was recalled to the side for the second Test at Lord's, and though the game was again lost, he scored an undefeated 74 in the second innings against Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald at their fastest.

Locksley Hall

The University of Toronto library identifies this form as "the old 'fifteener' line," quoting Tennyson, who claimed it was written in trochaics because the father of his friend Arthur Hallam suggested that the English liked the meter.

Nick Tennyson

Tennyson served as the Executive Vice President of the Home Builders Association of Durham, Orange and Chatham Counties from 1995 until 2013, when he became a Chief Deputy Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

Pen Tennyson

Tennyson followed Balcon when he was appointed head of production at the former Associated Talking Pictures, newly renamed as Ealing Studios.

Richard Herne Shepherd

In 1869 he published Translations from Baudelaire (reissued 1877, 12mo); in 1873 he printed, with notes, Coleridge's forgotten tragedy Osorio, and in 1875 The Lover's Tale (of 1833) and other early uncollected poems of Tennyson (unearthed from albums and periodicals).

Robert C. Snyder

He advised governors and congressmen, spoke at every Kiwanis and Optimist Club within a day’s drive of Ruston and still found time daily to spend with his friends Thoreau and Tennyson, Pope and Emerson.

Robert Nathaniel Dett

As a child, his mother encouraged him to memorize passages of Shakespeare, Longfellow and Tennyson.

Sydney Thompson Dobell

Next year he travelled through Switzerland with his wife; and after his return he formed friendships with Robert Browning, Philip Bailey, George MacDonald, Emanuel Deutsch, Lord Houghton, Ruskin, Holman Hunt, Mazzini, Tennyson and Carlyle.

Tennyson railway station

Prior to the opening of the Merivale Bridge in 1978, through trains ran from South Brisbane to Darra and Ipswich via Tennyson plus a local shuttle service between Yeerongpilly and Corinda calling at Tennyson.

The Sea Fairies

In 1905, however, a musical setting of Tennyson's poem for female chorus and orchestra, composed by Amy Beach, was in performance; the title may have stuck in the back of Baum's mind.


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