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.
Tiresias is a prophet whose prophecies no one wants to hear, and as such has become a character that is used by many poets…
In the first lines of Tennyson’s ‘Godiva’, it is made clear just how inspiring Tennyson found the railways of his time.…
On the way to Freshwater from Newport I pass a house called ‘Aubade’, it has always struck me as quite an odd name for a house…
Tennyson never completely translated the Iliad; however, he did try his hand at a couple of passages...…