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Letters, scraps of manuscript, and printed poems: the correspondence of Edward FitzGerald and Alfred Tennyson.
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Victorian Poetry
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March 22, 2008
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- Barton, Anna Jane
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"Well, 'My Master,' you need not reply to all this." (1)
Edward FitzGerald begins the concluding paragraph of his final letter to Alfred Tennyson by relieving him of any obligation to write back. In so doing he draws the history of their correspondence to an appropriate close. Over the course of nearly half a century of friendship, FitzGerald had learnt not to expect replies to his regular letters. After 1850, when Tennyson's marriage removed him from London and out of the company of his friend, FitzGerald wrote at least every six months, obedient to a wish, expressed by Tennyson in his first letter to FitzGerald, that he should "'write often whether I answer or no.'" (2) ...
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March 23, 2004 ;
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Tennyson students protest administrative change
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Kristofer Noceda;
597 words
...HAYWARD -- Tennyson High School students walked off campus...would take someone out who has helped Tennyson,"said Digna Zamora, a parent who decided...Banchero, who has served nearly 40 years at Tennyson High, said she was transferred to Mt...
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November 9, 1996 ;
Jim Nelson;
639 words
......Nelson Indianapolis Recorder 11-09-1996 Tennyson is "Kei" to North Central's fourth straight state soccer title. McKinley "Kei" Tennyson Jr. and Matt Fundenberger know what it...on a winning note. They ought to. Both Tennyson and Fundenberger are seniors on the North...
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The Independent - London;
May 10, 2003 ;
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......CD player a recording of Alfred, Lord Tennyson reading his poem "The Charge of the Light...listening. But I worry. I worry that Tennyson's tone may make too clear the interpretation...plain wrong. So I had fears about hearing Tennyson on CD. And not just Tennyson. The British...
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