Tennyson: Interviews and Recollections

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Early Days....Pages 1-3
Lincolnshire Memories....Pages 3-4
At Cambridge....Pages 4-5
The Bachelor Years....Pages 5-7
Early Recollections of Tennyson....Pages 8-12
A Meeting of Poets....Pages 12-15
A Bit of Chaos....Pages 16-17
Meetings with Tennyson (1849–89)....Pages 17-20
The New Laureate....Pages 20-20
Personal Recollections of Tennyson....Pages 20-26
Tennyson at Twickenham (1851–3)....Pages 26-30
Farringford....Pages 31-31
A Child’s Memories of Tennyson....Pages 32-35
Tennyson and Mrs Cameron....Pages 35-39
Walks with Tennyson....Pages 39-40
A Visit to Tennyson....Pages 40-43
Recollections of Tennyson....Pages 43-51
Visits to Farringford....Pages 51-59
Memories of Farringford....Pages 60-76
Tennyson in Cornwall (1860)....Pages 76-78
Interviews with Tennyson....Pages 78-79
An Evening at Thomas Woolner’s....Pages 80-84
‘A Visit to Farringford’ (1868)....Pages 85-86
A Personal Reminiscence....Pages 87-97
Tennyson: a Reminiscence....Pages 97-110
Memories of Tennyson....Pages 110-121
Aldworth....Pages 121-122
At Dickens’s Funeral....Pages 122-123
A First Sight of Tennyson....Pages 124-126
Last Meeting....Pages 126-127
A Composer Remembers....Pages 127-130
Visits to Aldworth....Pages 130-154
Centennial Recollections....Pages 154-158
Conversations at Aldworth....Pages 159-163
Memories of my Grandfather....Pages 163-168
Notes on Tennyson’s Conversation (1835–53)....Pages 168-172
Notes on Tennyson’s Conversation....Pages 172-175
Tennyson on the Romantic Poets....Pages 175-177
A Conversation with Tennyson (1870)....Pages 177-185
Tennyson on Religion....Pages 185-189
Tennyson on Free Will....Pages 189-190
Tennyson’s Conversation: the Last Days....Pages 190-192
‘Notes on Characteristics of Tennyson’....Pages 192-193
The End....Pages 194-195
Tennyson’s Funeral....Pages 196-197
Back Matter....Pages 198-202