Farringford is undergoing extensive restoration. It is being restored, as far as possible, back to how it would have looked when it's most famous resident wrote in the study and gazed at the stars from the rooftop.
Lionel Tennyson, grandson of Alfred, was a famous cricketer who captained Hampshire and England in the 1920s…
Magical realism as a genre title emerged in 1955, one hundred years after Tennyson was writing ...…
Tennyson, like many of the Victorians of the time, and indeed, many Americans to come, was preoccupied with looking West ... …
‘Poetry dwells in a perpetual Utopia of its own’ writes Hazlitt in his essay ‘On Poetical Versatility’…