00) Introduction by Professor Adrian Poole
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| Description: | A brief introduction to the day of Tennyson Poetry. |
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| Created: | 2009-11-19 15:57 | ||
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| Collection: | Reading Tennyson: A Celebration of the Bicentenary of the Birth of Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||
| Copyright: | Faculty of English | ||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||
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| Keywords: | english; tennyson; | ||
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| Explicit content: | No | ||
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Welcome! My Name is Adrian Poole and I'm chair of the Faculty of English and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. And I welcome you on behalf of the Faculty of English, the University of Cambridge and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Today we honour one of Cambridge's most famous poetic alumni, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. We are celebrating the bicentenary of his birth in 1809 (the sixth of August, but nevermind!) by reading a good portion of his enormous poetic output.
Tennyson is particularly associated with Trinity College, Cambridge, which he entered as an undergraduate in October, 1828. There he met Arthur Hallam, whose early death in 1833, prompted the poems gathered in "In Memoriam, A.H.H", which we shall hear later this afternoon.
But, we begin this first session with a group of four shorter poems.
Today we honour one of Cambridge's most famous poetic alumni, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. We are celebrating the bicentenary of his birth in 1809 (the sixth of August, but nevermind!) by reading a good portion of his enormous poetic output.
Tennyson is particularly associated with Trinity College, Cambridge, which he entered as an undergraduate in October, 1828. There he met Arthur Hallam, whose early death in 1833, prompted the poems gathered in "In Memoriam, A.H.H", which we shall hear later this afternoon.
But, we begin this first session with a group of four shorter poems.
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