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This line gave the title to the film Kind Hearts and Coronets. Lewis Carroll's poem "Echoes" is based on "Lady Clare Vere de Vere". Tennyson spent some time as a guest at Curragh Chase and wrote the poem to show his close friendship with the de Vere family. [1] Despite this, the poem is a scathing rebuke.
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".
[10] [n 2] The film's title was taken from the 1842 poem "Lady Clara Vere de Vere" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The full couplet reads Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. [12] Scene showing Alec Guinness in six of the roles he portrayed (second from the left is Valerie Hobson as the recently widowed Edith).
My True Love Hath My Heart; ... Sad Fountains; Lovely Kind and Kindly Loving; Cradle Song; Peace; for soprano and piano: 1. words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2. words by ...
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.
Enoch Arden (watercolour painting by George Goodwin Kilburne). Fisherman-turned-merchant sailor Enoch Arden leaves his wife Annie and three children to go to sea with his old captain, having lost his job due to an accident; reflective of a masculine mindset common in that era, Enoch sacrifices his comfort and the companionship of his family in order to better support them.
Emily Sarah Tennyson, Baroness Tennyson (née Sellwood; 9 July 1813 – 10 August 1896), known as Emily, Lady Tennyson, was the wife of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and an author and composer in her own right. Emily was the oldest of three daughters, raised by a single father, after her mother Sarah died when she was three years old.
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 ...