#the day tennyson died
Penny Dreadful S03E01 (The Day Tennyson Died)
Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) recites the verses 679-683 (8th stanza of Part XVIII) from the poem Maud, published in the collection Maud and other poems in 1855. The poem, whose narrator passionately falls in love with a woman, is said to have been inspired by Charlotte Rosa Baring.
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Penny Dreadful S03E01 (The Day Tennyson Died)
Ferdinand Lyle (Simon Russel Beale) pays Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) a visit and tells her about Alfred Tennyson’s death. He then quotes In Memoriam A.H.H., a poem written by Tennyson over 17 years and completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet’s friend Arthur Henry Hallam, divided into 133 cantos and written in four-line stanzas of iambic tetrameter; the rhyme scheme is ABBA.The verses quoted are from the last stanza of the XXVII canto
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
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