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| | Anecdote - Alfred, First Baron ["Lord Tennyson"] Tennyson - Urban Sombrero? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Tennyson, famed for his eccentric clothing, could often be seen sporting a swirling Spanish cloak and immense sombrero. |
 | | When a friend, enlisted to convey Tennyson's wishes to prime minister Gladstone, suggested that the poet be offered a peerage (entitling him to a place in the House of Lords) rather than a mere baronetcy, Gladstone demurred: "Could I," he asked, "be an accessory to introducing that hat into the House of Lords!?" |
 | | Tennyson, Alfred, First Baron ["Lord Tennyson"] (1809-1892) British poet; poet laureate (1850-92) [noted for such works as In Memoriam (an elegiac sequence inspired by the death of his Cambridge friend Arthur Hallam, 1850), The Princess (1847), Maud (1855), and The Idylls of the King (a reworking of Arthurian legend, 1859-85)] |
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