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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.
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
Charles Timothy Brooks, translator, Songs and Ballads, translations of German poems [3] 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]
Song. The Owl. Second Song. To the same. Recollections of the Arabian Nights. Ode to Memory. Song. (I' the glooming light.) Song. (A spirit haunts.) Adeline. A Character. Song. (The lint-white and the throstle cock.) Song. (Every day hath its night.) The Poet. The Poet’s Mind. Nothing will die.* All things will die.* Hero to Leander. The ...
The Kingston Trio recorded the song as "A Round About Christmas", on their album The Last Month of the Year released in 1960. [6] [16] [17] A calypso sounding version was featured on the 1979 album John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together [18] and a loose, jazzy piano-based arrangement was featured in the musical score of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Lady Clare was first published in 1842. After 1851 no alterations were made. [1]This poem was suggested by Susan Ferrier's 1824 historical novel The Inheritance.A comparison with the plot of Ferrier's novel will show how Tennyson adapted the tale to his ballad:
Break, Break, Break, On The Cold Grey Stones O Sea…, watercolour by Alfred Downing Fripp "Break, Break, Break" is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson written during early 1835 and published in 1842.