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
Dylan had been lured from his home in Woodstock by the chance to visit the stamping ground of Tennyson & Edward Lear. Binning the Woodstock Festival in favour of playing at a festival on the Isle of Wight was so magnificently Dylan.
The stained glass windows in Tennyson’s parish church are very - & appropriately - Idylls of the King...
Old Yew, which graspest at the stone,
That name the under-lying dead,
Thy fibres net the dreamless head,
Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.
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