"Hang there like fruit, my soul": Tennyson's feminine imaginings.(Alfred Tennyson) From: Victorian Poetry | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Hughes, John | COPYRIGHT 2007 West Virginia University Press, University of West Virginia. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Tennyson, we know, was buried with a copy of Cymbeline (as well as various wreaths, and roses from Emily), and in the days before his death on October 5, 1892, he repeatedly asked for the relevant volume, laying it "face down" on the page where Posthumous is reconciled with Imogen, and pressing down with his hand so "heavily" that the spine cracked: (1)

 
   Hang there like fruit, my soul, 
   Till the tree die! 

Hallam reports his dying father as trying unsu...

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