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To Freshwater, probably the only place in the world which combined dinosaur footprints with a memorial to Tennyson. The poet’s nightmarish vision of “Dragons of the prime,
That tare each other in their slime” provides In Memoriam with one of its greatest passages. #IsleOfWight
A maternal ancestor was Tennyson’s land agent on the Isle of Wight. A signed copy of his complete poems is one of my most treasured possessions...
Memorials to Tennyson, his son - who briefly served as Governor-General of Australia - & his grandson, who died on the Western Front in 1918. All Saints Church, Freshwater. #IsleOfWhite ImageImage
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