RARE Antique 1902 Suede Cover Book: “Locksley Hall” by Alfred Tennyson

As shown. See all photos. Limited damage. Delicate. Compromised binding inside cover (photo 4).

4.25” x 6.5” x .6”

"’Locksley Hall’ is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1835 and published in his 1842 collection of Poems. It narrates the emotions of a rejected suitor upon coming to his childhood home, an apparently fictional Locksley Hall, though in fact Tennyson was a guest of the Arundel family in their stately home named Loxley Hall, in Staffordshire, where he spent much of his time writing whilst on his visits.

According to Tennyson, the poem represents "young life, its good side, its deficiencies and its yearnings.” Tennyson's son Hallam recalled that his father said the poem was inspired by Sir William Jones's prose translation of the Arabic Mu'allaqat.”

“Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (6 Aug 1809–6 Oct 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge.”