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Meet Alfred Tennyson: Poet, Muse, and Inspiration for the Pre-Raphaelites with Simon Rees
March 26 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
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$12.00
Poet Laureate: Fame, Friendship, and Music
Appointed Poet Laureate in 1850, Tennyson became the poetic voice of Victorian Britain for over forty years, moving easily among figures such as Queen Victoria, William Ewart Gladstone, Thomas Carlyle, and Edward Lear.
Lear’s musical settings of Tennyson’s songs illuminate the poetry’s lyricism, as the lecture concludes by reflecting on Tennyson’s remarkable range and enduring place at the heart of the Victorian imagination.
In the series:
Mar. 12: Learn About Alfred Tennyson and His Circle
Mar. 19: Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelite Imagination
Mar. 26: Poet Laureate: Fame, Friendship, and Music
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