| Front | Lockskey Hall |
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| Back | A poem Alfred Tennyson 1842 Represents young life, its good side, its deficiencies and its yearning Hero's frustrated love for his cousin Amy Victorian frame of mind Locksley Hall" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1835 and published in his 1842 collection of Poems. It narrates the emotions of a rejected suitor upon coming to his childhood home, an apparently fictional Locksley Hall, though in fact Tennyson was a guest of the Arundel family in their stately home named Locksley Hall where he spent much of his time writing whilst on his visits. According to Tennyson, the poem represents "young life, its good side, its deficiencies, and its yearnings".[1] Tennyson's son Hallam recalled that his father said the poem was inspired by Sir William Jones's prose translation of the Arabic Mu'allaqat. |
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