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"Locksley Hall" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1835 and published in his 1842 collection of Poems. It narrates the emotions of a rejected suitor upon coming to his childhood home, an apparently fictional Locksley Hall, though in fact Tennyson was a guest of the Arundel family in their stately home named Loxley Hall, in Staffordshire, where he spent much of his time writing whilst on ...
Poems, by Alfred Tennyson, was a two-volume 1842 collection in which new poems and reworked older ones were printed in separate volumes.It includes some of Tennyson's finest and best-loved poems, [1] [2] such as Mariana, The Lady of Shalott, The Palace of Art, The Lotos Eaters, Ulysses, Locksley Hall, The Two Voices, Sir Galahad, and Break, Break, Break.
William Cullen Bryant, The Fountain and Other Poems, a collection of parts of a larger work, never to be completed; published in response to many requests for a longer, more ambitious work of poetry [4] Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Saadi" [3] Charles Fenno Hoffman, The Vigil of Faith and Other Poems, a popular book with four editions in three years [4]
Alfred Tennyson wrote the Locksley Hall poems after a mansion of the same name in Staffordshire, [2] [3] former country house of Thomas Kynnersley. In the early 19th century the house was remodelled and enlarged. A third storey under a hipped roof was added and the east wing was extended to seven bays.
In "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After", Tennyson wrote: ... Poems (published 1832, but dated 1833 on title page), [53] in which the following poems were published:
The poem was inspired by Charlotte Rosa Baring, younger daughter of William Baring (1779–1820) and Frances Poulett-Thomson (d. 1877). Frances Baring married, secondly, Arthur Eden (1793–1874), Assistant-Comptroller of the Exchequer, and they lived at Harrington Hall, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, which is the garden of the poem (also referred to as "the Eden where she dwelt" in Tennyson's poem ...
William Wordsworth cannot have written a rebuttal to "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After", since that poem was published in 1886, and Wordsworth died in April 1850. He may, however, have written a rebuttal to "Locksley Hall", which was published in Tennyson's 1842 collection of poems. Paulannis 10:42, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
By the end of the poem, the latter half line takes on the qualities of a refrain. ... Alfred Tennyson's Locksley Hall, [2] and Rudyard Kipling's Mandalay. [3]