Tennyson’s Gardener

Authors

  • Ramón Muñoz Chapulí Spain

Keywords:

Alfred Tenysson, gardener, Middleton

Abstract

Alfred Tennyson felt a chill. The sun was already descending over the hills of Middleton. Summer was ending, the days were getting shorter and it was starting to cool down in the afternoons. The poet called his butler to warn him that they would have tea in the living room, instead of in the garden. Tennyson returned to walk restlessly along the gallery, peeking out at the porch from time to time to see if Darwin finally came out of Dimbola Lodge. Good heavens, he said to himself, how long can that woman take to take some photographs! He sat down and leafed through the magazine again while thinking about what he would say to Darwin when he arrived. The matter was extraordinarily important and yet… How difficult, he said to himself, to foresee the consequences of our words, what a devastating effect on Humanity a simple conversation between friends at tea time can have…

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Metrics

Metrics Loading ...

Published

2009-02-20

How to Cite

Muñoz Chapulí , R. (2009). Tennyson’s Gardener. Encuentros En La Biología, 2(122), 5–10. Retrieved from https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/enbio/article/view/18580