After his marriage Tennyson lived for some time at Twickenham, where in 1852 Hallam Tennyson was born. In 1851 he and his wife visited Italy, a visit commemorated in _The Daisy_. In 1853 they removed to Farringford at Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, a residence subsequently purchased with the proceeds of _Maud_, published in 1855. The poem had a somewhat mixed reception, being received in some quarters with unstinted abuse and in others with the warmest praise. In the year that _Maud_ was published Tennyson received the honorary degree of D.C.L., from Oxford. In 1859 was published the first four of the _Idylls of the King_, followed in 1864 by _Enoch Arden and Other Poems_. In 1865 his mother died. In 1869 he occupied Aldworth, an almost inaccessible residence in Surrey, near London, in order to escape the annoyance of summer visitors to the Isle of Wight, who insisted on invading his privacy, which, perhaps, more than any other he especially valued. From 1870 to 1880 Tennyson was engaged principally on his dramas--_Queen Mary_, _Harold_, and _Becket_,--but, with the exception of the last, these did not prove particularly successful on the stage. In 1880 _Ballads and Poems_ was published, an astonishing volume from one so advanced in years. In 1882 the _Promise of May_ was produced in public, but was soon withdrawn. In 1884 Tennyson was raised to the peerage as Baron Tennyson of Aldworth and Farringford, after having on two previous occasions refused a baronetcy. In 1885 _Tiresias and Other Poems_ was published. In this volume was published _Balin and Balan_, thus completing the _Idylls of the King_, which now assumed their permanent order and form. _Demeter and Other Poems_ followed in 1889, including _Crossing the Bar_. In 1892, on October 6th, the poet died at Aldworth, "with the moonlight upon his bed and an open Shakespeare by his side." A few days later he was buried in Westminster Abbey, by the side of Robert Browning, his friend and contemporary, who had preceded him by only a few years.