Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites
5 May 2025
10.00am
Room MB3201, Minerva Building, University of Lincoln Lincoln, LN6 7TS
Event Information
Join Jim Cheshire, cultural historian and Associate Professor at the University of Lincoln, for his public lecture which 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.
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