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Miss Rundle : poem on Italy

From 'private diary' of 'Mrs Rundle Charles, who was then Miss Rundle,' on visit from Tennyson at Upland, her uncle's house, four miles outside Plymouth: 'He spoke of the Italians as a great people (it was in 1848, the year of revolutions) [...] He had read a poem of mine on Italy: said he felt "great interest in the Italian movement as in all great movements for freedom"'.

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      
  

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