[Literature] Tennyson, Alfred Lord. (1809 - 1892)

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Autograph signaure of the distinguished British poet who was one of the most highly regarded and influential literary figures of the Victorian era. Ink signature, “A. Tennyson,” on an off-white card stamped "Farringford" and mounted. Sold together with an original mounted oval Woodburytype photograph.

Tennyson lived at Farringford House on the Isle of Wight from 1853 until the end of his life in 1892. Tennyson wrote of Farringford:

“Where, far from noise and smoke of town
I watch the twilight falling brown,
All round a careless-ordered garden,
Close to the ridge of a noble down.” (5832)
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