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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...in " Guinevere " where Arthur passes from her sight. He also remembered that the poet told him that at one time he had intended to use the character of Arthur as a figure to represent Conscience, but in working out the poem he had found himself unable to carry on this idea. Mrs. Tom Taylor was often at Little Holland House at this time, and had set to music the poem called "The Sisters." She sang the words so dramatically that at the line, Three times I stabbed him thro' and thro'. the poet turned to Signor, and said in his deep voice, " And she would have done it too." It was now, or very soon after this, that the first portrait of Tennyson was painted, not that which is so well known, and which at the time it was painted was called "the great moonlight portrait," the one which is in the possession of Lady Henry Somerset. The first portrait is now in the Melbourne Gallery, the head is seen in profile; it was painted in 1857, the other in 1858-59. While this last portrait was being painted, the Laureate, who was then writing the idyll, "Elaine, the Fair Maid of Astolat," asked Signor what was in his mind when he set to work upon a portrait, and the words of his reply, having passed through the mind of the poet, lie embedded in the poem. It was at this time that another life-long friend came to Little Holland House. In the Memorials of her husband by Lady Burne-Jones, she quotes from a note of his: "One day Gabriel took me out in a cab--it was a day he was rich, so we went in a hansom, and we drove and drove until I thought we should arrive at the setting sun--and he said, 'You must know these people, Ned; you will see a painter there--paints a queer sort of pictures, about God and Creation.' So it was h...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1231206020
- ISBN 13 9781231206027
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages72
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