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Alfred Tennyson and Aubrey De Vere : The Angel in the House

[Aubrey De Vere writes] 'In 1854 I went [...] to Farringford, where the poet [Tennyson] then made abode with his wife and two children [...] in the afternoon we sometimes read aloud in the open air, or rather we listened to the Poet's reading [...] On one occasion our book, which we agreed in greatly admiring, was Coventry Patmore's Angel in the House, then recent.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson and Aubrey De Vere     Print: Book

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