Ms. JANE STILLWATER (Embed and Blogger): They're - you know, the cannons to the left of them, as Alfred Lloyd Tennyson said, cannons to the right of them, and somebody had blundered.

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And if one were to make hay over the virtues or deficits of nineteenth-century British poetry or twentieth-century Irish poetry, then one should encounter the full range of Tennyson's or Yeats's work before jumping, or slouching, to conclusions.

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Inspired by the religious sobriety of the early-19th-century German painters who called themselves "Nazarenes, " by England's Gothic-revival movement and by the straightforward imagery of early-Renaissance painters like Giotto, they looked to the Bible, to the poetry of Keats and Tennyson and to Shakespeare for subject matter, proclaiming their intention to shun vulgar or sentimental subjects and to paint directly from nature.

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The stories, narrated by the bride Scheherazade to the Persian king, have resonated in art and literature for centuries, from Edgar Allan Poe to Alfred Tennyson's Recollections of the Arabian Nights.

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The council has already created a memorial in a play area in nearby Tennyson Street where a piece of equipment has been named for each of the six children.

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These words, borrowed from Sir Alfred Tennyson's Ulysses poem, had been left by the party who located Scott's tent in memory of the expedition team's legacy.

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