Lifelong Learning Lecture: Alfred Lord Tennyson: Victorian Poet Laureate

Guest Speaker: Dr. Helen Heineman, President Emerita, FSU
Alfred Lord Tennyson was Queen Victoria’s favorite poet and had a wider readership than any other poet of his time. This lecture will present his life in the context of his age as well as several select poems that illustrate the strangeness, strength, individuality, and timelessness of his extraordinary talent.

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Dr HH enlivens her lecture with interesting anecdotes and digressions which shed a sliver of light on Tennyson as friend, husband, son, a mild-eyed melancholic, a public figure, and above all a consummate artist. She wears her awesome erudition very lightly so as to make Tennyson accessible. even to non-specialist.

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This presentation by Dr. Heineman is a newly discovered jewel for me. I've listened to it a few times already, and trust I'll be back again for many more. So thorough, so enjoyable, so wish there'd be more presentations of this caliber! Thank you, Dr. Heineman, for your explanation, and thank you, Framington Public Library, for posting.. .

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I own a signed check by Alfred Lord Tennyson from 1872.

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What is the name of the poem in 22:35?