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In 133 cantos, including the prologue and the epilogue, Tennyson uses the stylistic beats of tetrameter to address the subjects of spiritual loss and themes of nostalgia, philosophic speculation, and Romantic fantasy in service to mourning the death of his friend, the poet A. H. Hallam; thus, in Canto IX, Tennyson describes the return of the ...
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 ...
1270, refers to the death of Louis IX of France on the Eighth Crusade. Raimon Gaucelm de Beziers: 401.8 Qui vol aver complida amistansa: 1268, urging support for the Eighth Crusade. Raimon de Cornet: I [6] 1332, after Philip VI of France took the cross in July. The Battle of Adramyttion (1334) was a related endeavour.
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (/ ˈ t ɛ n ɪ s ən /; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria 's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu".
Sweet and Low" is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Written in 1849, [ 1 ] Tennyson sent two versions of the poem to Emily Sellwood in November, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] asking her to select which one to include in the revised 1850 edition of The Princess , [ 4 ] where it intercalates canto II and III.
This poem had been written as early as 1831, and Hallam Tennyson tells us that it "came to my father as he was travelling between Narbonne and Perpignan". [1] The characteristic features of Southern France are vividly depicted.
Paolo Aretino – First and second books of responsories for Holy Week (Venice: Francesco Rampazetto); Bálint Bakfark – First book of lute tablature (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), contains "several fantasies, motets, chansons, and madrigals" by various composers
The Shepherds' Crusade of 1251 was a popular crusade in northern France aimed at rescuing King Louis IX during the Seventh Crusade. In 1249, Saint Louis IX of France went away on crusade, leaving his mother, Blanche of Castile, as regent during his absence. Louis was defeated and captured in Egypt at the Battle of Fariskur