cooee wrote:
>on 5/1/05 11:17 AM, Stephen Vincent at [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>>Does't Julia (?)
>>Cameron have a great photograph of Tennyson? Shaggy dude and then some.
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>Yes, Julia Margaret Cameron.
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>The Tennyson family used to call that photo of T 'the mad monk'.
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Cameron--a pioneer of the photo portrait. This makes me think of the
present-day Joyce Tennyson, I am sure no relation to Alfred, who colors
her portrait and fashion work with an almost pastel tinge. Film, light,
and printing....
On one of the Tennyson websites there is an old Mapleson wax cylinder
recording of the poet himself reading "The Charge of The Light
Brigade." Set aside the primitive sound quality, and put by such
descriptors as "jingoistic tub-thumper," and the experience itself is
eerie, of hearing this old man reciting in a sort of elevated monotone a
poem that I would bet every British schoolboy of the times (and after?)
had to learn by heart. I wonder if that is how poetry was customarily
recited in the late Victorian period. I only wish Browning had lived to
"be waxed."
Oh yes...in Ulysses, Tennyson is indeed referred to as "Lawn Tennison
Gentleman Poet." I don't know if that was Joyce talking or Stephen
Dedalus. I shall maintain my own confidences on this part of the topic.
Ken
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