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TennysonYou are in: Lincolnshire > History > Local History > Tennyson > Tennyson and Technology  'The Dirty Monk' Tennyson and TechnologyRecorded using Edison's wax cylinder technology 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' is an eerie evocation of a time long gone. Famous lines by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
So we know what Tennyson looked like, and thanks to some early Edison wax cylinder recordings, we know what he sounded like too. In an age when regional accents were much more common at all levels of society, he kept his Lincolnshire accent all his life – and as well as the polite accent appropriate for his level of the gentry, he could also adopt a broad, working man's accent – in fact he wrote Lincolnshire dialect poems long after he had left the county. His now famous recording of The Charge of the Light Brigade is an eerie evocation of a time long gone. Made a little more eerie because the wax cylinder was kept too near a radiator. You can just make out the accent, but nobody knows what the banging noise is halfway through. Perhaps he was just getting a bit carried away. (Pictures and audio by permission of the Tennyson Research Centre, Lincolnshire County Council) Download and print Tennyson's poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'last updated: 31/07/2009 at 15:06 You are in: Lincolnshire > History > Local History > Tennyson > Tennyson and Technology |
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