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A Day with the Poet Tennyson
TENNYSON was no recluse. He shunned society in the ordinary London sense, but he welcomed kindred spirits to his beautiful home, with large-hearted cordiality. To be acquainted with Farringford was in itself a liberal education. Farringford was an ideal home for a great poet. To begin with, it was somewhat secluded and remote from the world's ways, especially in the early 'fifties, when the Isle of Wight was much more of a terra incognita than traffic now permits. One had to travel down some hundred miles from town, cross from the quaint little New Forest port of Lymington to the still quainter little old-world Yarmouth"a medival Venice," the poet called itand then drive some miles to Freshwater, before one attained the stately loveliness of Farringford embowered in trees. The interior of the housea very ancient onewas no less ideal than its outward aspect, "it was like a charmed palace, with green walks without and speaking walls within." And its occupants crowned allthe ethereally lovely mistress with her "tender spiritual face," and the master, tall, broad-shouldered, and massive, dark-eyed and dark-browed, his voice full of deep organ-tones and delicate inflections, his mind shaped to all fine issues. "The wisest man," said Thackeray, "that ever I knew." ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 40442
Author: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson
Release Date: Aug 8, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English
Illustrator: Haslehust, E. W., 1866-1949 , Margetson, W. H. (William Henry), 1861-1940
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