Festival of History: Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites

Hear from Jim Cheshire, Associate Professor, as he shares insight into the fascinating world of Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites in this public lecture, in celebration of the Lincoln Festival of History.

Jim will explore Alfred Tennyson’s fluctuating relationship with artists associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

While the Pre-Raphaelites loved Tennyson’s poetry, he was more guarded about the way that they interpreted his poems, which led to an interesting creative tension between artists and author.

This lecture will discuss paintings and book illustrations by J. E. Millais, William Holman Hunt and some lesser known figures associated with the movement. Many of the works discussed will be from the collections of the Tennyson Research Centre in Lincoln.

More information and tickets are available online: https://tennysonfoh.eventbrite.co.uk.