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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.
Pages in category "Poetry by Alfred, Lord Tennyson" ... Locksley Hall; The Lotos-Eaters; M. Mariana (poem) Mariana in the South; Maud, and Other Poems; N. Now Sleeps ...
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]
The volume had the following title-page: Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, by Alfred Tennyson. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1830. [ 3 ] Favourable reviews appeared by Sir John Bowring in the Westminster , by Leigh Hunt in the Tatler , and by Arthur Hallam in the Englishman's Magazine .
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.
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 ...
Locksley Hall, written by Alfred Tennyson "Oh When I Was ...", written by A. E. Housman; Curfew Must Not Ring To-Night, written by Rose Hartwick Thorpe, June 17, 1939; Barbara Frietchie, written by John Greenleaf Whittier, September 16, 1939; The Glove and the Lions, written by Leigh Hunt; Ben Bolt, written by Thomas Dunn English