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 bestowed upon it has been insufficient to remove. 
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THE 
 
 iStbltofirapf)^ of Cennp^on 
 
 A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PUBLISHED AND PRIVATELY-PRINTED WRITINGS 
 
 OF 
 
 ALFRED (LORD) TENNYSON 
 Poet Laureate 
 
 FROM 1827 TO 1894 INCLUSIVE 
 
 WITH HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANNUALS, MAGAZINES, 
 
 NEWSPAPERS, AND OTHER PERIODICAL 
 
 PUBLICATIONS 
 
 A SCHEME FOR A FINAL AND DEFINITIVE EDITION 
 OF THE POETS WORKS 
 
 BY 
 
 THE AUTHOR OP « TENN YSONIANA " 
 
 LONDON 
 
 PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. 
 
 1896 
 
 ^^ 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 Mr. RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD. 
 
 ^Ten years ago few figures were better known 
 to the London bookseller than that of the 
 eccentric litterateur who passed away on July 
 15, 1895. Four or five years ago, however, 
 declining health necessitated his retirement 
 from active life, and in a retreat at Camberwell 
 his last days were spent in compiling for Notes 
 and dueries a bibliography of Coleridge, and 
 in preparing for the press a bibliography of 
 Tennyson. He was a native and a resident 
 of Chelsea, the son of Samuel Shepherd, 
 F.S.A., and the grandson of a former minister 
 of Ranelagh Chapel, the Rev. Richard Heme 
 Shepherd. 
 
vi IN MEMORIAM 
 
 To all collectors of the first editions of the 
 .works of Tennyson, Thackeray, Dickens, 
 Ruskin, Charles Lamb, Carlyle, and Swin- 
 burne the name of Richard Heme Shepherd 
 is a household word. He may be said to 
 have invented that class of bibliography which 
 modern book collectors most esteem. A 
 considerable amount of excellent work was 
 also done anonymously by Shepherd for John 
 Camden Hotten, William Pickering, George 
 Redway, and other publishers. He was, 
 perhaps, the last man who regarded a business 
 letter as a literary composition, and his 
 briefest note was turned out as if it were a 
 contribution to the Athenaum. His zeal for 
 literature as literature was such that every 
 fragment of printed matter became precious 
 in his eyes and worthy of preservation, and if 
 the author of the fragment or the author's 
 friends chanced to take other views — tant pis. 
 A man who tries to subsist by literary work 
 of the class which alone appealed to the 
 sympathies of Mr. Shepherd has a desperate 
 fight with circumstances, and sometimes a hit 
 
IN MEMORIAM vii 
 
 below the belt may occur on one side or the 
 other. Those who at this distance of time 
 can recall any disagreeable event connected 
 with him who has left us must, however, be 
 extremely few. Animosity could hardly con- 
 tinue with a man so fundamentally good- 
 natured as Shepherd, and it is a fact that the 
 last person against whom Mr. Shepherd 
 brought an action, and lost it, subscribed to 
 pay the plaintiff's costs. 
 
 His was a unique personality, and although 
 he dropped out of London life some years 
 ago, amusing stories are yet told of his eccen- 
 tric appearance, of his manners and customs. 
 As a literary workman he was conscientious 
 to an extraordinary degree, and an hour's 
 walk in order to verify a quotation or to cross 
 the /'s and dot the i's on a proof-sheet was to 
 him positive enjoyment. He succumbed to 
 cancer at the age of fifty-three. 
 
 R. 
 
THE 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TENNYSON. 
 
 1827. 
 
 Poems, by Two Brothers. " Haec nos 
 novimus esse nihil." — Martial. London : 
 Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 
 Stationers'-hall-court ; and J. J. Jackson, 
 
 Louth. MDCCCXXVII. 
 
 Published in two sizes, i2mo., at 5s., and 8vo., at 7s. 
 The Large-Paper copies, of which there were, of course, 
 fewer printed, (though not always preferred by collec- 
 tors) generally command the higher price in the market. 
 Of late years the book has become increasingly scarce, 
 and is much sought after ; and it fetches a considerable 
 
 I 
 
2 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1827- 
 
 sum in either form, especially in the original boards, 
 with the paper label. 
 
 The two brothers were Charles and Alfred Tenny- 
 son, then at the Louth Grammar-School together. The 
 Messrs. Jackson purchased the copyright of their joint 
 volume for ten pounds, and retained the original manu- 
 script, which, in later years, was exhibited as a curiosity. 
 And an attempt was made, unsuccessfully, by the late 
 Mr. B. M. Pickering, in the middle sixties (after the 
 publishers had discovered and reported a small remain- 
 der stock of the original issue), to induce the proprietors 
 of the copyright to dispose of it to him. The small 
 bundle of copies left, in both sizes, was purchased by 
 Mr. Pickering, and the book gradually rose in price, as 
 the number of copies dwindled, and at last disappeared ; 
 but the negotiations for the purchase of the copyright 
 fell through, owing to the influence of the Poet's family 
 in the county, to the prestige of his own great fame, 
 and to the fact that the transfer of copyright had taken 
 place in his minority, when he was entirely unknown 
 and still a school-boy and, in the eyes of the law, an 
 infant. Whether any pecuniary compensation or 
 indemnification was made to the Jacksons by the Poet 
 or his friends, is uncertain. But Mr. Pickering held 
 the original bargain to be morally if not legally valid, 
 unless cancelled by subsequent redemption on the part 
 of the authors by mutual consent w-ith the original pub- 
 lishers ; and, had he succeeded in effecting and com- 
 pleting the purchase, which he travelled down to 
 ^Lincolnshire to negotiate, he would have published a 
 
1829.] OF TENNYSON. 3 
 
 new edition of the volume without any hesitation. The 
 best (or perhaps the only) descriptions of " Poems by 
 Two Brothers " are in a paper contributed by the Hon. 
 Leicester Warren to the Fortnightly Review, in October, 
 1865 ; and in a paper " On the Early Poems of 
 Alfred and Charles Tennyson," published in Notes and 
 Queries early in 1866, and which afterwards formed 
 substantially the two opening chapters of "Tenny- 
 soniana." 
 
 A diminutive volume of " Sonnets and Fugitive 
 Pieces," by Charles Tennyson (the elder of the two 
 brothers), was issued at Cambridge, with his name, 
 in 1830,* and will enable a careful student to dis- 
 tinguish his work to some extent, in the earlier 
 anonymous volume, from that of his more famous 
 younger brother. Charles Tennyson afterwards 
 assumed the name of Turner on inheriting some 
 property, entered the Church, and became Vicar of 
 Grasby in Lincolnshire. With the exception of some 
 original lines which appeared in The Tribute in 1837, 
 he published no more verse apparently for thirty-four 
 
 * A copy of this little volume, sent to Coleridge, 
 elicited from tlie older and more famous poet a series 
 of autograph marginalia, which were deciphered and 
 published in 1880 in the collection of Charles Tenny- 
 son's Poems issued by his family, and in Mr. David M. 
 Main's " Treasury of English Sonnets," in which valu- 
 able anthology some of Charles Tennyson's finest 
 Sonnets are included. 
 
4 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1829. 
 
 years. His next volume appeared in I864; and 
 during the last fifteen years of his life he published 
 several small volumes — chiefly of sonnets, his favourite 
 form of composition. After his death in 1879 ^'^ 
 poetical writings were collected, prefaced by a short 
 memoir written by his nephew, Mr. Hallam Tenny- 
 son, with some introductory memorial stanzas by the 
 Poet Laureate. 
 
 The volume " Poems, by Two Brothers " was 
 reprinted after the Poet's death in 1893, with the 
 initials of the authors attached to each poem. It 
 appears that four were by Frederick Tennyson. 
 
 1829. 
 
 TiMBucTOo : A Poem (in blank verse) 
 which obtained the Chancellor's Gold 
 Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, 
 by A. Tennyson, Trinity College, Printed 
 in the Frolusiones Academic a of 1829. 
 Cantabrigia (Cambridge) : Joannes Smith. 
 8vo., thin pamphlet, pp. 13. 
 
 This poem was reprinted several times, in smaller 
 size, in succeeding years in the collection of "Cam- 
 
1 8 29- J. OF TENNYSON. 5 
 
 bridge Prize Poems." In all these successive reprints 
 " ravish'd sense "* is misprinted " lavish' d %smQ" ; the 
 correct reading is only to be found in the first edition, 
 as it appeared in the Prolusiones., The poem was never 
 reprinted by the author ; but three or four scattered 
 lines of it appear in the " Ode to Memory" (1830) and 
 in "The Lover's Tale" (1833). 
 
 Arthur Hallam was one of the unsuccessful com- 
 petitors for this prize. His poem, written in the terza 
 rima of Dante, was privately printed, both as a separate 
 pamphlet and in his " Remains in Verse and Prose " 
 
 (183+). 
 
 Thackeray, then also at Trinity, ridiculed the choice 
 of subject, and produced a short mock or burlesque 
 " Timbuctoo," in his college jeu d'esprit, entitled " The 
 Snob " (Cambridge, 1829). 
 
 The Athenaum journal (at that early period of a long 
 and distinguished career edited by its two joint proprie- 
 tors, John Sterling and Frederick Denison Maurice) had 
 the courage and the foresight to sound a trumpet-note 
 of praise, heralding the advent of a new poet, and pro- 
 phesying, with no uncertain voice, the future greatness 
 of the author of the successful poem. 
 
 In the previous year (1828), Frederick Tennyson, 
 the eldest of the seven brothers, had gained the prize 
 for a Greek poem on Egypt, printed in the collection 
 of Greek and Latin Prize Poems. There is^a sonnet 
 
 'Line 9 of p, 12 (original edition). 
 
6 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1830. 
 
 by Frederick Tennyson in One of the volumes of 
 Friendship's Offering containing a similar contribution 
 from his younger and more famous brother ; but he 
 published (whatever he may have printed privately) no 
 collection of English Poems until 1854, when the 
 volume of " Days and Hours," bearing his name on the 
 title, was issued by J. W. Parker and Son. He had, at 
 that time, attained his forty-eighth year. 
 
 1830. 
 
 Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. By Alfred 
 Tennyson. London : Effingham Wilson, 
 1830. (pp. 154, leaf of Errata, no Table 
 of Contents.) 
 
 It had originally been intended to publish these 
 poems conjointly with those of Arthur Hallam ; but by 
 the advice of Hallam's father the contributions of the 
 latter were withdrawn, and issued, separately and 
 anonymously, for private circulation only. I never 
 saw but one copy of Arthur Hallam's collected Poems. 
 Tennyson's maiden volume attracted considerable atten- 
 tion from the leading Reviews of the period ; it was 
 noticed at unusual length by the Westminster Review, 
 and in Blackwood's Magazine by Christopher North, — 
 whose criticism called forth an epigram from the young 
 
1830.] OF TENNYSON. 7 
 
 poet in his ensuing volume of 1832, 1833. It was also 
 reviewed by Arthur Henry Hallam in the brief-lived 
 Englishman's Magazine, published by Edward Moxon in 
 1831 : of this interesting notice only a small portion is 
 reprinted in Arthur Hallam's Remains. 
 
 Copies of " Poems, Chiefly Lyrical," in the original 
 boards and in good condition, are now increasingly 
 rare, and command a high price. Two exceptionally 
 interesting copies have come under my observation. 
 The first was an uncut copy bearing on the title-page 
 the neat and minute autograph of Robert Southey. On 
 a fly-leaf belonging to, or attached, to the volume, was 
 written in the author's autograph the draught of an 
 original unpublished sonnet on Cambridge, which has 
 since seen the light in the second edition of " Tenny- 
 soniana," in Notes and Queries, and elsewhere. This 
 copy was preserved in the Dyce Collection at South 
 Kensington. The other copy, accompanied by the 
 later volume of 183Z-1833, and the privately-printed 
 " Lover's Tale," was not an uncut or specially well- 
 bound copy, but contained, like its companion volumes, 
 autograph notes and corrections in the Poet's hand- 
 writing, made in the year 1835, on the visit to Cam- 
 bridge recorded in "In Memoriam," when the poet 
 was the guest of the owner of these volumes, the Rev. 
 W. H. Thompson, afterwards Master of Trinity 
 College, at the sale of whose Library in 1887 these 
 three volumes were disposed of in separate lots, and 
 brought extremely advanced prices. An ordinary copy, 
 perfect in the original boards, or artistically bound from 
 
8 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1830- 
 
 an uncut copy, is now worth from ten to fifteen 
 'pounds, according to condition 
 
 Many of the poems in this volume were rejected and 
 omitted from subsequent editions of Tennyson's Minor 
 Poems. Some of these, however, were restored or 
 reinstated in the later collected editions of his Com- 
 plete Works. Very few of the poems retained were 
 materially, or otherwise than verbally, altered. 
 
 Mr. Thompson's copy contained, in addition, an 
 autograph note .of his own, giving some account of an 
 eccentric fellow-collegian, Thomas Sunderland, from 
 whom the poem entitled " A Character " was supposed 
 to be drawn. 
 
 1830-183I. 
 
 The Gem, for 1831 (London), an illustrated 
 Annual, contains three original unpublished 
 poems by Alfred Tennyson, never included 
 by the author in any of his subsequent 
 Yohimes, viz., "No More," "Anacreontics," 
 and " A Fragment," the last-named in blank 
 verse, somewhat in the style of " Timbuc- 
 too." These are reprinted in a small 
 volume entitled "The Lover's Tale and 
 other Poems, now first collected," of which 
 
1 831.] OF TENNYSON. 9 
 
 an edition, limited to fifty copies, was 
 issued for private circulation in 1875, with 
 a monograph by the author of "Tenny- 
 soniana." 
 
 This little volume was suppressed at the Poet's 
 instigation by a decree of the Court of Chancery and 
 is now very difficult to find. It contained twelve pages 
 of preliminary matter (with title, contents, indicating 
 the sources of the minor poems, and " a Monograph on 
 'The Lover's Tale,' a Supplementary Chapter to 
 ' Tennysoniana ' " (of which the second edition had not 
 then been published), and sixty-four pages of text, of 
 which forty-eight were occupied by the principal poem, 
 and sixteen by the minor poems, not accessible else- 
 where, except in the publications to which they were 
 originally contributed. Some of the copies were done 
 up in blue and white boards, entirely uncut ; others 
 were bound in vellum or half roan, with edges uncut 
 and tops gilt ; others remained loose or stitched, in the 
 original sheets. But a large proportion of the copies 
 were confiscated ; and probably not more than twenty 
 or two dozen were put into actual circulation, 
 
 A previous attempt, in the same direction, was made 
 in the later months of 1870, but without title, table 
 of contents, or monograph, and it lacked complete- 
 ness in regard to the collection of Minor Poems, while 
 including some others afterwards acknowledged and 
 restored. This also was suppressed, at the instigation 
 of the late Mr, B. M. Pickering. 
 
lo THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1831- 
 
 1831. 
 
 The Englishman' s Magazine, for August, 
 1 831 (Edward Moxon), contains an original 
 unpublished Sonnet by Alfred Tennyson, 
 commencing : 
 
 " Check every outflash, every ruder sally.'' 
 
 (After the premature collapse of The Englishman's 
 Magazine this Sonnet was reprinted in Friendship's 
 Offeringior 1833 (an illustrated annual), but disfigured 
 by the error of " move " for " wove " in the antipen- 
 ultimate or twelfth line.) 
 
 1831-1832. 
 
 The Yorkshire Literary Annual for 1832 
 contains an original unpublished Sonnet by 
 Alfred Tennyson, commencing : 
 
 " There are three things which fill my heart with 
 . sighs," 
 
 and also a Sonnet by Edward Tennyson, 
 one of the Poet's younger brothers : 
 
1832.] OF TENNYSON. 11 
 
 apparently the sole published specimen of 
 his poetical work. 
 
 Friendship's Offering for 1832 contains an 
 original unpublished Sonnet by Alfred 
 Tennyson, commencing : 
 
 " Me my own Fate to lasting sorrow doometh :" 
 
 These three sonnets were not included in the volume 
 of 1832-1833, nor in any of the later volumes, or col- 
 lected editions of Tennyson. They are reprinted in 
 the small brochure of sixty-four pages already alluded to, 
 " The Lover's Tale and other Poems, now first col- 
 lected," issued for private circulation in 1875. 
 
 1832. 
 
 Poems, by Alfred Tennyson. London : 
 Edward Moxon, 1833 (published in the 
 winter of 1832). 
 
 Both in quantity and quality this volume surpasses 
 its predecessor of 1830, is of much rarer occurrence, 
 especially in the original boards, and commands a still 
 higher price. Many of the poems were omitted alto- 
 gether in later editions and never restored or reinstated. 
 
12 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1833. 
 
 and of those retained, some of the longer and more 
 important, e.g., " The Lady of Shalott," " The Palace 
 of Art," " A Dream of Fair Women," " ^none," and 
 " The Miller's Daughter," were either re-written or 
 considerably altered on their reappearance in 1842. 
 The " Hesperides,'' the " Poems to Kate and Rosalind," 
 the " Darling Room," the lines " To Christopher 
 North," and other pieces, were omitted altogether, and 
 have never been restored. This second volume was 
 severely attacked in the Quarterly Review of July, 1833 
 (No. 97), in a strain of ironical praise, in an article 
 attributed to John Gibson Lockhart, the Editor of the 
 Quarterly. 
 
 1833- 
 The Lover's Tale. A Fragment. By 
 Alfred Tennyson. London : Edward 
 Moxon. 1833. pp. 60. 
 
 A few copies were struck off separately and distri- 
 buted to' college friends and others ; but the poem was 
 suppressed before publication. Probably it was originally 
 intended to form a part, perhaps the opening part, of 
 the volume described in the previous entry, dated also 
 1833, though actually published in the winter of 1832. 
 
 This poem seems to have been written in 1828, in 
 the author's nineteenth year, and was apparently printed 
 
1 833-] OF TENNYSON. 13 
 
 mainly at the instigation or by the request of Arthur 
 Hallam, for distribution among the author's college 
 intimates. Richard Milnes (afterwards Lord Houghton) 
 possessed a copy, quoted in his own first volume of 
 poems published in 1834 ("Memorials of a Tour in 
 Greece ") ; and (as already mentioned) a copy was in 
 the possession of W. H. Thompson, afterwards (1835) 
 enriched with marginal autograph corrections by the 
 author. This, and the copy, the early history of which 
 is not apparent, sold at Sotheby's in June, 1870, and 
 eventually acquired by Mr. Pickering (bound up to- 
 gether with the published volumes of 1830 and 1833, 
 and not separately, like Mr. Thompson's copy), are the 
 only two copies I ever saw of the original edition. 
 I never saw an uncut copy. At the sale of the late 
 Mr. Pickering's Tennyson Collection, at Puttick and 
 Simpson's, in 1879, this copy of his brought ^^40; and 
 at a later date Mr. Thompson's copy, with autograph 
 corrections, fetched ,^60, at Sotheby and Wilkinson's. 
 
 In 1869 "The Lover's Tale," with considerable 
 alterations, and with the addition of a hitherto unprinted 
 section, was sent to the press by the author, to accom- 
 pany or precede the poem of " The Golden Supper," 
 (published in the volume of " The Holy Grail," etc.,) 
 which forms a sequel to it. But it was again suppressed 
 before publication; and "The Golden Supper" (founded 
 on a prose story in th,e Decameron of Boccaccio) was pub- 
 lished alone, on its own merits. Some half-dozen copies 
 of this authorized reprint of 1 869 were apparently 
 saved from destruction. One of these was given by 
 
14 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1833- 
 
 Tennyson's publisher of that time, Alexander Strahan, 
 to Mr. George Macdonald, the poet and novelist : an- 
 other was in the collection, and appears in the privately- 
 printed Catalogue, of Mr. Frederick Locker-Lampson. 
 I never saw a copy of it, and it seems to be almost as 
 rare as the original edition. 
 
 In the summer of 1870, and again in 1875, under 
 the auspices of the Editor of " Tennysoniana," the 
 Fragment of " The Lover's Tale " was reprinted, for 
 private circulation, from the original edition, as it 
 appeared in 1833. These two unauthorized reprints 
 were rigorously suppressed and called in, and only a 
 few copies of each were actually circulated. 
 
 At last, in 1879, the poem was fully published, in 
 a small green cloth volume, by the author, but con- 
 siderably altered, and in many parts re-written, with 
 the addition of a new third part and a reprint of 
 " The Golden Supper," to form a fourth and final 
 part, in accordance with the scheme abandoned in 
 1869 (ten years previously), accompanied by an 
 apologetic prose preface, substituted for the original 
 one which was prefixed to the poem as issued in 
 1832. 
 
 1836-1837. 
 
 I'he Keepsake, for 1837 (^" Illustrated Annual) 
 contains an original verse contribution by 
 
I837-J OF TENNYSON. 15 
 
 Alfred Tennyson, the poem of " St. Agnes' 
 Eve," republished in the second volume of 
 the Poems of 1842, as "St. Agnes." 
 
 1837- 
 
 The Tribute : a Collection of Unpublished 
 Poems, by various authors, edited by Lord 
 Northampton. Lond. : John Murray. Svo, 
 1837. Contains an original verse con- 
 tribution by Alfred Tennyson entitled 
 " Stanzas," not reprinted elsewhere, but in- 
 corporated eighteen years later (1855), with 
 
 ft 
 
 some modifications and omissions, into the 
 poem of " Maud," being the substance of 
 the stanzas forming a section of the second 
 part of that poerti and commencing : 
 
 " O that 'twere possible." 
 
 The Tribute also contains some verses by Charles 
 Tennyson Turner. 
 
1 6 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1842- 
 
 1842. 
 
 Poems. In Two Volumes. By Alfred 
 Tennyson. London : Edward Moxon, 
 Dover-street. 1842. pp. 464. 
 
 The first volume contains, with a few additions of 
 early date, including the Third Part of "The May 
 Queen," a small selection (afterwards considerably 
 extended) from the Poems of 1830 and 1832, many 
 of the latter being considerably altered or re-written, 
 and "The Sleeping Beauty" (from the volume of 
 1830), being relegated to the second volume to form a 
 section of the longer poem of " The Day-Dream. " 
 
 The second volume (with the exception just named, 
 and that of " St. Agnes ") consisted of poems previously 
 unpublished. 
 
 It seems probable that before the actual publication 
 of these two long - delayed and eagerly - expected 
 volumes, early copies of the proof-sheets were handed 
 about among the author's literary friends with the 
 view of eliciting their suggestions and that some 
 alterations and omissions were made, either by their 
 advice, or by an afterthought of the Poet himself, 
 while the volumes were passing through the press. In 
 1843 the late Mrs. Procter (the wife of "Barry Corn- 
 wall ") sent to Samuel Rogers (in a note seen and 
 copied by me several years ago) two stanzas originally 
 
1842.J OF TENNYSON. 17 
 
 printed with " Locksley Hall,"* which do not appear 
 in the published edition of 1842, or in any subsequent 
 one, but which did appear in 1887, forty-five years 
 subsequently, after they had been known to me for 
 some time, in the sequel entitled " Locksley Hall Sixty 
 Years After." 
 
 From whence could these two stanzas be derived if 
 not from an early set of proofs or small privately- 
 printed issue communicated to the Procters before 
 publication ? In the Catalogue of Mr. Frederick 
 Locker-Lampson's collection is an autograph copy of 
 the poem of " The Talking Oak," containing two 
 
 * Following upon the line : 
 
 " And our spirits rush'd together at the touching of 
 the lips." 
 
 The two stanzas are as follows : 
 
 " In the Hall there hangs a painting : Amy's arms are 
 
 round my neck, — 
 Happy children in the sunlight, playing on the ribs of 
 
 wreck. 
 In my life there dwells a picture : she that clasp'd my 
 
 neck is flown : 
 I am left within the shadow, sitting on the wreck 
 
 alone." 
 
 It is quite clear from Mrs. Procter's note that these 
 two stanzas (though not actually published until 1887) 
 were written, and printed, at the same time as the rest, 
 of the original poem. 
 
 2 
 
1 8 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1843- 
 
 stanzas, quoted in the Catalogue in extenso, not appear- 
 ing in any of the published editions, but which it is 
 quite possible were also printed in the early proofs, or 
 in some small private issue of the first edition of 1842, 
 and afterwards struck out. There is indeed no evidence, 
 as in the former case, that these two stanzas were 
 actually printed by the author, and not scored through 
 before sending the " copy '' to the printer ; but there 
 is some considerable /r/«!fl/2r«V presumption that they 
 were set up in type, like the rest, in the first instance. 
 Early proof-sheets of " In Memoriam " and " Maud " 
 exist, which show that numerous alterations, omissions 
 and additions were made in these poems after they 
 were in type. 
 
 I 843-1 846. 
 A second, third and fourth edition of the 
 Poems in two volumes, with some altera- 
 tions and additions, and with the omission 
 of a note to the second volume and of 
 the date (1833) originally appended to 
 the poem of " The Two Voices," appeared 
 in 1843, 1845 ^"'i Y'iifi respectively. 
 These are of considerably less rarity than 
 the first issue : the edition of 1 843, like 
 the first edition, was issued in boards ; 
 that of 1 845 in cloth boards ; and that 
 
1847.] OF TENNYSON. 19 
 
 of 1846 in green cloth, gilt-lettered, like 
 most of the succeeding volumes. 
 Punch of Feb. 28 and March 7, 1846 
 (vol. X., pp. 103, 106), contains two 
 original poems by Alfred Tennyson, signed 
 *" Alcibiades " — " The New Timon and 
 the Poets," and "Afterthought." The 
 first has never been republished by the 
 author ; the second, under the title of 
 " Literary Squabbles," reappeared, many 
 years afterwards (1872), in the third 
 volume of the Library Edition of his 
 Collected Works. 
 
 1847. 
 The Princess : a Medley. By Alfred 
 Tennyson. London : Edward Moxon, 
 1847, PP- 164, green cloth. The Second 
 Edition (published in 1848, with the 
 exception of a few slight verbal altera- 
 tions, and the addition of a brief Dedica- 
 tion to Henry Lushington,) is a reprint 
 of the first. (Moxon, 1 848, green cloth, 
 pp. 164.) 
 
20 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1848- 
 
 1848. 
 Poems, Fifth Edition. In one volume : 
 Lond. : Edward Moxon, 1848, green 
 cloth, pp. 372, 
 
 1849- 
 
 To , after reading a Life and Letters. 
 
 Originally published in The Examiner, 
 1849. Reprinted in the Sixth Edition of 
 Tennyson's Poems, Moxon, 1850. 
 
 1850. 
 
 In Memoriam. London: Edward Moxon, 
 Dover-street, 1850, dark cloth, pp. 210,. 
 
 The second and third editions were published in 
 the same year, and contain like the first, in addition 
 to the introductory and concluding poems, 130 
 numbered sections only. The numbered sections of 
 " Tn Memoriam" (which eventually increased to 132) 
 were apparently written between the autumn of 1833, 
 after the death of Arthur Hallam in September of 
 that year, and the spring or summer of 1836. The 
 
1850.] OF TENNYSON. 21 
 
 concluding poem, or Epithalamium, was written in 
 1842, and the Introductory lines bear the date of 
 1 849, in which year the work was presumably printed. 
 I had the opportunity, in 1884, of inspecting a set of 
 early proof-sheets of " In Memoriam " (without the 
 title), which contained only 118 numbered sections, 
 with readings frequently differing considerably from 
 those of the published edition. A detailed account 
 of this set of proof-sheets appeared in a paper of mine, 
 entitled " The Genesis of ' In Memoriam,'" contributed 
 to Walford's Antiquarian Magazine, in 1887. 
 
 The Princess : a Medley. By Alfred 
 Tennyson. Third Edition. London : 
 Edward Moxon, 1850, green cloth, 
 pp. 177. 
 
 In this Edition the poem was considerably altered 
 from beginning to end, and in some parts re-written. 
 A considerable number of lines, especially in a long 
 speech of the Princess, were omitted. The six inter- 
 calary songs, and the lines of blank verse, forming a 
 sequel to the Prologue, which follow Lilia's Song, 
 were added for the first time. 
 
 Poems by Alfred Tennyson. Sixth 
 Edition. In one volume, green cloth. 
 
22 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1850- 
 
 London: Edward Moxon, 1850. With 
 the addition of the Examiner poem of 
 1849, "After reading a Life and Letters." 
 
 This is the last edition including the poem of " The 
 Skipping-Rope," omitted in all subsequent editions of 
 the Minor Poems, and in all Collected Editions of the 
 Poet's Works. 
 
 Original unpublished poem, of eight lines, 
 by Alfred Tennyson, not reprinted in any 
 of his volumes, contributed to the Man- 
 chester Athenaum Album, small quarto, 
 1850. 
 
 " Here often, when a child, I lay reclined " — 
 
 My attention was first directed to this poem in 
 1875, by a notice written by Mr. W. E. Axon, where 
 it was quoted in extenso, which appeared in Cope's 
 Tobacco Plant, a pleasant monthly folio journal of 
 literary and other gossip, published at Liverpool. It 
 is included in the little volume of sixty-four pages, 
 " The Lover's Tale and other Poems," issued for 
 private circulation in that year. 
 
1 851.] OF TENNYSON. 23 
 
 1850-1851. 
 
 The Keepsake for 1851 (an illustrated annual) 
 contains two original unpublished poems 
 contributed by Alfred Tennyson : 
 
 I. " What time I wasted youthful hours," 
 
 three stanzas of three lines each, in the 
 metre of '' The Two Voices," never re- 
 printed by the author. 
 
 2. " Come not, when I am dead " 
 
 (disfigured by a misprint, or transposition 
 of words, in the last line of the first 
 stanza). Included, for the first time, in 
 the Seventh Edition of Tennyson's Poems 
 (the first Laureate Edition), in one volume, 
 published in 1 8 5 1 . 
 
 Sonnet to Macready. 
 
 The text of this Sonnet, addressed to Macready on 
 the occasion of his last farewell performance, and read 
 by Mr. John Forster, with the poet's sanction, shortly 
 afterwards, at the Public Banquet given to that actor 
 
24 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1851. 
 
 on his retirement, must be sought and collated from 
 the best newspapers of the time. It appears in the 
 privately-printed booklet of sixty-four pages, issued in 
 1875, already alluded to, and in the last collected 
 edition. 
 
 1851. 
 
 Poems, by Alfred Tennyson, Poet 
 Laureate. Seventh Edition. London : 
 Edward Moxon, 1851, one volume, green 
 cloth, pp. 375. 
 
 The first Laureate Edition, with the stanzas " To 
 the Queen " prefixed, as originally written, including 
 the " Crystal-Palace " stanza, omitted in all subsequent 
 editions. In this edition were also first printed, in a 
 correct form, the lines recently contributed to The 
 Keepsake, 
 
 " Come not, when I am dead." 
 
 The poem of " The Skipping Rope " (included for the 
 last time in the Edition of 1850) finally disappeared 
 from the collection. 
 
 In Memoriam. Fourth Edition. London : 
 Edward Moxon, 1 85 1, dark cloth, pp. 211. 
 
1 85 1.] OF TENNYSON. 25 
 
 This edition (like all the subsequent editions for the 
 next twenty years) contained 1 3 1 numbered sections : 
 a section being added or restored, standing as the fifty- 
 eighth, commencing : 
 
 " O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me ?" 
 
 Index to " In Memoriam " (uniform in size 
 with the volume itself, and available to 
 bind with the fourth edition, or with any 
 succeeding edition containing 131 num- 
 bered sections), Lond. : Edward Moxon 
 and Co., 1 862, pp. 40. 
 
 The compiler's name is not given ; but this valu- 
 able little index was, not improbably, the work of Mr. 
 Barron Brightwell, who, seven years later, published a 
 large Concordance to Tennyson complete up to date 
 (1869). 
 
 In the first Collected Edition of Tennyson's Poetical 
 Works, printed at the Chiswick Press, and issued in 
 small cabinet volumes, a new section, standing as the 
 thirty-third, was added for the first time, or restored, to 
 " In Memoriam," which thus, in all the later editions, 
 contained 132 numbered Sections, in addition to the ■ 
 introductory poem and the concluding Epithalamium. 
 
 The Princess : A Medley. By Alfred 
 Tennyson. Fourth Edition. London : 
 
26 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1851- 
 
 Edward Moxon, 1851, green cloth, pp. 
 182. 
 
 In this edition the passages relating to the Prince's 
 weird or cataleptic seizures were first added. 
 
 1852. 
 The Examiner newspaper of January and 
 February, 1852 (at that time edited by 
 John Forster), contains four original unpub- 
 lished poems by Alfred Tennyson (one or 
 two of them signed " Merlin ") : viz. 
 
 1. " Britons, guard your own." 
 
 2. " Hands all Round." 
 
 3. " The Third of February, 1852." 
 
 4. " How much I love this writer's manly 
 
 style." 
 
 After the final collapse of the Second French Empire, 
 the poem entitled " The Third of February, 1852," was 
 acknowledged and republished in the third volume of 
 the Library Edition of Tennyson's Collected Works, 
 issued in 1872 ; and, at a later period, the poem of 
 " Hands all Round," remodelled and adapted to the 
 
1852.] OF TENNYSON. 27 
 
 circumstances of a new time, was arranged for Mr. 
 Santley's singing at St. James's Hall, and reprinted in 
 " Tiresias, and Other Poems" (1885). The first and 
 the last-named of these four poems have never been 
 republished by the author ; nor has the last-named ever 
 been republished at all, even in the privately-printed 
 collection, issued in 1875, '^^ authorship of this piece 
 not having then made itself apparent to the compiler. 
 
 Mr. Leicester Warren first drew attention to the 
 three earlier of these Examiner patriotic poems (from 
 which he printed copious extracts) in the paper contri- 
 buted by him to the Fortnightly Review, in October, 
 1865. They were afterwards reprinted, if not /;; 
 extenso, with the omission of a few stanzas only, in the 
 first edition of " Tennysoniana," as originally printed ; 
 but these extracts had to be curtailed or rescinded in 
 the published edition. 
 
 Ode on the Death of the Duke of 
 Wellington. By Alfred Tennyson, 
 Poet Laureate, 8vo., pp. 16, with half-title 
 and title, in purple wrapper, repeating title. 
 London: Edward Moxon, 1852. 
 
 The First Edition contains a passage of five lines 
 omitted in all subsequent issues of the poem. 
 
28 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1853- 
 
 1853- 
 Ode on the Death of the Duke of 
 Wellington. A New Edition, 8vo., in 
 wrapper, pp. 16. London : Edward 
 Moxon, 1853. 
 
 This edition contains, in the second stanza, a line not 
 contained in the first edition, and omitted in all subse- 
 quent issues of the poem. Considerable alterations and 
 additions were made throughout, adopted in the later 
 and current text of the poem, as it reappeared in the 
 " Maud " volume, and in collected editions of the 
 poet's works. It is of much greater rarity than the 
 first edition. The only copy I ever possessed was 
 purchased at Cambridge, in 1874 °'^ '^75> ^' '^^ 
 original price of one shilling, of Messrs. Macmillan and 
 Co., who then apparently held a small remainder of it 
 (which, however, they kept carefully in the background, 
 declining to part with a second copy), long before they 
 became Tennyson's publishers ; and the late Mr. B. 
 M. Pickering, if I remember rightly, gave me ten 
 shillings for this copy on my return to London. I 
 never, before or since, saw another, except the bound 
 copy in the British Museum. 
 
 Poems by Alfred Tennyson. Eighth 
 Edition, in one volume, pp, 379, green 
 cloth. London: Edward Moxon, 1853. 
 
1854.] OF TENNYSON. 29 
 
 This edition contains alterations in the stanzas " To 
 the Queen," to which a new stanza is added, and the 
 "Crystal-Palace" stanza of 1851 is omitted. Italsocon- 
 tains, for the first time, an important additional altera- 
 tion in the early poem of " A Dream of Fair Women," 
 more than twenty years after its original appearance. 
 With one exception (mentioned infra) no further addi- 
 tion or alteration was made in any subsequent edition ; 
 so that the edition of 1853 may be accepted as the final 
 text, in its first form, of the poems it includes. 
 
 The Princess : A Medley. By Alfred 
 
 Tennyson. Fifth Edition, green cloth, pp. 
 
 183. London: Edward Moxon, 1853. 
 
 The passage quoted from " the gallant glorious 
 chronicle," in the Prologue, is first added in this 
 edition, which presents the final text of the poem, as it 
 afterwards appeared. A set of the first five editions of 
 " The Princess " is indispensable to a collector or 
 student curious respecting the genesis and history of the 
 poem. 
 
 1854. 
 
 The Charge of the Light Brigade. 
 
 The first version or draught of this famous and 
 popular ballad appeared in the Examiner of December 9, 
 1854. It differs materially in text from all the later 
 versions. 
 
30 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1855. 
 
 1855. 
 
 The Charge of the Light Brigade 
 (with prose note, signed by the author, 
 dated " August, 1855 "). Four pages, 4to., 
 1855. 
 
 A thousand copies were privately printed, for distri- 
 bution among the soldiers before Sebastopol, who had a 
 liking for the ballad : a copy of this privately-printed 
 quarto sheet, in good preservation, is now of extreme 
 rarity. I never saw any other copy than that preserved 
 in the British Museum, in a folio volume containing 
 miscellaneous ballads and broadsides. 
 
 Maud, and Other Poems. By Alfred 
 Tennyson, Poet Laureate. London : 
 Edward Moxon, 1855, green cloth, pp. 
 154. 
 
 Besides the principal poem, of which a portion had 
 appeared as far back as 1837, in a miscellany entitled 
 The Tribute, this volume contains : " The Brook," an 
 Idyll ; " The Letters "; " The Daisy" (written at Edin- 
 burgh) ; "Will "; "Lines to the Rev. F.D. Maurice" (all 
 published for the first time) ; and, with some altera- 
 tions, the " Ode on the Death of the Duke of Welling- 
 ton " already published twice (1852, 1853) in a separate 
 
1856.] OF TENNYSON. 31 
 
 pamphlet form, and " The Charge of the Light 
 Brigade," reprinted from the Examiner. 
 
 1856. 
 
 Maud, and Other Poems. By Alfred 
 Tennyson. A New Edition. London : 
 Edward Moxon, 1856, green cloth, pp. 
 164. 
 
 Considerable additions, extending to some ten pages, 
 were made to the principal poem, in this edition. The 
 ballad of " The Charge of the Light Brigade " under- 
 went some important alterations, especially in the final 
 stanza. 
 
 In later editions the poem of " Maud " was divided 
 into two and ultimately into three parts ; and the 
 second title of " A Monodrama " was added. Some 
 years ago I had the opportunity of inspecting a set of 
 early proof-sheets of the " Maud " volume, containing a 
 satirical passage of several lines descriptive of the 
 " babe-faced lord," scored out and omitted entirely from 
 all the published editions. This passage was quoted in 
 extenso in a paper of mine on " The Genesis of 
 Tennyson's ' Maud,' " contributed to the North 
 American Review in 1884. In these early proofs the 
 poem was entitled, and the head-lines ran, " Maud ; 
 or the Madness." 
 
32 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1857. 
 
 1857. 
 
 Enid and Nimue ; or, The True and the 
 False. London: privately printed, 1857, 
 pp. 131. 
 
 The original and earliest form of the first two of 
 the four "Idylls of the King," published in 1859. I 
 never saw a copy, and describe it only on the 
 authority of the paper contributed by Mr. Leicester 
 Warren to the Fortnightly Review in October, 1865, 
 which may, however, be considered as conclusive ; 
 since, although he does not state expressly that he had 
 seen a copy himself, nor intimate how many copies 
 were printed, or escaped destruction, he records the 
 exact number of pages circumstantially, as given here ; 
 which he could hardly have done except after in- 
 spection of the book or on the information of some 
 trustworthy friend who had seen and noted, if he did 
 not possess a copy. Perhaps, however, it was only a 
 single set of proof-sheets that had been preserved, and 
 shown or described to Mr. Warren ; and the book may 
 have been withdrawn before any copies were actually 
 printed off in their final form. It is hardly likely, 
 even if a small number of such copies were extant, 
 that a copy should not appear in the market during a 
 period of thirty-eight years, especially as such a copy, 
 offered to public competition, would doubtless have 
 realized an almost fabulous sum. At present " Enid 
 
1857-] OF TENNYSON. 32 
 
 and Nimue " may be considered to be what the French 
 bibliographers term introuvabk. 
 
 [The only known copy (1895) is now in the British 
 Museum, supposed to be one of six original copies. — 
 Editor.'] 
 
 Poems, by Alfred Tennyson, Poet 
 
 Laureate. "With Engraving of Bust 
 
 by Woolner, and illustrations by Dante 
 
 Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, 
 
 and others. London : Edward Moxon, 
 
 1857, pp. 375, royal Svo., red cloth, uncut. 
 
 This edition has no special or peculiar textual 
 value, corresponding, apparently, in all respects, to 
 the unadorned Eighth Edition, of 1853 ; but the 
 illustrations, some of them executed by hands since 
 so eminent and distinguished, give it considerable 
 importance and significance. A copy of the earliest 
 issue, dated as above, in the original cloth, entirely 
 uncut, must be secured. Shortly after its appearance, 
 Edward Moxon, long known as the poet's publisher, 
 died, and the remainder of this edition was trans- 
 ferred to Messrs. Routledge and ruined by deteriorated 
 impressions of the plates, and by a tawdry cloth bind- 
 ing, with gilt edges. Edward Moxon's original issue 
 was published at a guinea and a half, Routledge's at 
 a guinea. Mr. Ruskin bestows a high eulogiumon 
 these illustrations in the Appendix to his " Elements 
 of Drawing" (London, 1857). 
 
 3 
 
34 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1858- 
 
 1858. 
 The daily newspapers of January 28, 1858, 
 contain two original stanzas added, by 
 the Poet Laureate, to the National Anthem, 
 to be sung with it on the occasion of the 
 marriage of the Princess-Royal of England 
 with Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia. 
 
 1859. 
 The Times of May 4, 1859, contains an 
 original poem by Alfred Tennyson, entitled 
 " The War " (better known as " Riflemen, 
 form "), signed T., and beginning :■ — 
 " There is a sound of thunder afar." 
 
 The Emperor of the French (then in the zenith of 
 his power and prestige) was not spared in one of the 
 stanzas : apparent and temporary success had not made 
 him respectable in the eyes of the poet who had 
 gibbeted him seven years before in the Examiner when 
 the imperial charlatan first assumed the purple. 
 
 These stanzas were not reprinted till 1 892, in " The 
 Death of CEnone " ; but I had no doubt of their author- 
 ship from the day when I first saw them in the Times 
 newspaper, at Teignmouth, in Devonshire. They 
 were very popular, and a composer, or perhaps several 
 composers, " set them to music.'' 
 
1859.J OF TENNYSON. 35 
 
 The Grandmother's Apology. (With 
 
 an illustration by J. E. Millais.) Once-a- 
 
 Week, July 16, 1859. 
 
 Reprinted, under the abridged title of " The Grand- 
 mother," in the " Enoch-Arden " volume (1864). This 
 is the poem which Tennyson, many years later, is 
 supposed to have read, by special request, before the 
 company of crowned heads and royal personages, who 
 met in 188 at Copenhagen, when Tennyson arrived 
 there on a yachting voyage with Mr. Gladstone. 
 
 The illustration by Millais is much more careful 
 
 than most of his similar drawings on wood at that 
 
 period, and, being of such exceptional excellence, it 
 
 seems a pity it should lie entombed in an old volume 
 
 . of a forgotten periodical. 
 
 Idylls of the King. " Flos regum 
 
 Arthurus" — Joseph of Exeter. By 
 
 Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate. London : 
 
 Edward Moxon and Co., 1859, green 
 
 cloth, pp. 261. 
 
 Contains the four Idylls of Enid, Vivien, Elaine 
 and Guinevere, the first two of which had been 
 privately printed, in 1857, under the title of "Enid 
 and Nimue." Nimue was the name given in the old 
 legends and chronicles (changed by the Poet for the 
 sake of euphony to Vivien, as he afterwards changed 
 
36 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1859- 
 
 " Shalott " into " Astolat ") of the " false " heroine of 
 the second Idyll. For the story of" Enid" Tennyson 
 was largely indebted to Lady Charlotte Guest's trans- 
 lation of the Welsh " Mabinogion," the details, names, 
 and even words, being closely followed and reproduced. 
 
 1859-1860. 
 Sea-Dreams : an Idyll. By Alfred Tenny- 
 son. Macmillan's Magazine, January, i860. 
 Reprinted in the " Enoch-Arden " volume (1864). 
 
 i860. 
 
 TiTHONus. Cornhill Magazine, February, 
 
 i860. 
 
 Reprinted, with an alteration in the first line, in the 
 " Enoch-Arden " volume (1864). 
 
 1861. 
 The Sailor Boy. — Victoria Regia, a 
 Christmas miscellany, in verse and prose, 
 by various authors. London : Emily Faith- 
 full, Victoria Press, large 8vo., cloth, gilt. 
 
 Reprinted, with some slight alteration, in the 
 " Enoch-Arden " volume (1864). 
 
1 862.] OF TENNYSON. 37 
 
 Helen's Tower. Clandeboye. Privately 
 printed. "To my dear son on his 21st 
 birthday " (stanzas by Lady GiiFord) ; 
 twelve lines on the next to the last page 
 (by Alfred Tennyson). 
 
 The privately printed pamphlet has a steel engraving 
 of the tower on the title-page, and no names are attached 
 to the poems. The poems were reprinted with signa- 
 tures in Good Words for 1884, p. 25, with a description 
 of the tower by Charles Blatherwick. 
 
 1862. 
 Idylls of the King. A New Edition. 
 London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1862, 
 green cloth. 
 
 With a Dedication, in blank verse, to the memory 
 of the Prince Consort, and a few slight alterations or 
 corrections in the text. This dedication was printed 
 in separate form before issue, and a few copies remain. 
 
 Ode sung at the opening of the International 
 Exhibition. With Music by Sterndale 
 Bennett (May i, 1862). 
 Reprinted in the " Enoch-Arden " volume (1864). 
 
38 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1863- 
 
 SuppREssED Poems of Tennyson. A 
 
 pamphlet privately printed under the 
 
 supervision of J. D. Campbell, 1862. 
 
 There is in the British Museum a curious legal 
 document, "Tennyson v. Hotten" (1862), containing 
 an order of the Court of Chancery for the suppression 
 of an unauthorized reprint of poems by Tennyson. I 
 never saw a copy of the book, and do not know its 
 contents. 
 
 1863. 
 
 A Welcome. By Alfred Tennyson, Poet 
 Laureate, four pages with full title, uniform 
 in size with Moxon's editions of Tenny- 
 son's volumes. London : Edward Moxon 
 and Co., 1863. 
 
 These lines were addressed to the Princess 
 Alexandra of Denmark, on her arrival in England 
 and her marriage with the Prince of Wales. The 
 poem was reprinted, with considerable alterations and 
 additions, in the " Enoch-Arden " volume (1864). 
 This separate edition is now a great rarity, though it 
 could be , bought at the time of its publication for a 
 few pence. 
 
 Experiments of Classic Metres in 
 Quantity (Hexameters and Pentameters). 
 
1864.J OF TENNYSON. 39 
 
 -Translations of Homer ; Catullian Hendeca- 
 
 syllabics ; Milton (Alcaics) : with Specimen 
 
 of a Translation in blank verse from the 
 
 Iliad. Cornhill Magazine, December, 1863. 
 
 Reprinted, without the "Hexameters and Penta- 
 meters," in the "Enoch-Arden " volume (1864). 
 
 1864. 
 Idylls of the Hearth. By Alfred Tenny- 
 son, P.L., D.C.L. London : Edward 
 Moxon and Co., Dover Street, 1864, 
 pp. 178. 
 
 This is the same as the regular (following) edition 
 of " Enoch Arden," but with a different title-page. 
 
 Enoch Arden, etc. By Alfred Tennyson, 
 
 Poet Laureate. London : Edward Moxon 
 
 and Co., 1864, pp. 178. 
 
 Contents : " Enoch Arden " ; " Aylmer's Field " ; 
 " The Flower " ; " In the Valley of Cauteretz " ; 
 " Requiescat " ; " Flower in the Crannied Wall " ; 
 " Boadicea " ; and " A Dedication " (all previously un- 
 published) ; and " The Grandmother;" " Sea-Dreams," 
 an "Idyll"; " Tithonus " ; "The Sailor Boy"; 
 " Exhibition Ode " ; "A Welcome to Alexandra " ; 
 
40 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1864- 
 
 and " Experiments of Classic Metres in Quantity," 
 with Specimen of a Blank Verse Translation from the 
 Iliad of Homer (but minus the "Hexameters and 
 Pentameters"), which had appeared, between 1859 
 and 1863, either in a separate form or in the magazines 
 and publications already indicated. 
 
 Inscription of four lines of verse for the 
 Mausoleum of the Duchess of Kent. Court 
 Journal, and other ne^yspapers, 1864. 
 
 1865. 
 
 A Selection from the Works of Alfred 
 
 Tennyson, Poet Laureate (Moxon's 
 
 Miniature Poets). London : Edward 
 
 Moxon and Co., 1865, cloth gilt, square 
 
 1 2mo., with red border lines enclosing text, 
 
 and portrait of the author, pp. 256. 
 
 Contains some original poems previously unpub- 
 lished, OTZ..' "The Captain, a Legend of the Navy;" 
 "On a Mourner ;" " Three Sonnets to a Coquette ;" be- 
 sides variations of two of the Songs in " The Princess." 
 In this volume two new lines were inserted or added 
 towards the end of the poem entitled " The Vision of 
 Sin," which do not appear in any of the earlier, or 
 reappear In any of the later editions of the volume con- 
 taining that poem. The couplet or reading in question 
 seems to be peculiar to this volume, as if the after- 
 
1867.] OF TENNYSON. 41 
 
 thought by which it was introduced was subsequently 
 abandoned. The two lines are as follows : 
 " Another answer'd, ' But a crime of sense ? 
 Give him new nerves with old experience ' " 
 — a recipe that many (were it possible) would fain adopt. 
 
 1865. 
 
 On a Spiteful Letter. Once -a -Week, 
 December, 1865. 
 
 Reprinted, with considerable alterations, in the 
 Library Edition of Tennyson's Works, 1872. 
 
 I 866-1 867. 
 Tennysoniana. With a set of the cancelled 
 
 leaves, as first printed. London : B. M. 
 
 Pickering, dark cloth boards, uncut. 
 1866-1867. 
 
 (Very few copies with the cancelled leaves were 
 preserved.) 
 
 A Second Edition, much enlarged, was issued in 1 879, 
 and contained a Sonnet of the Poet on Cambridge Uni- 
 versity, found in MS. in a volume of "Poems" in the 
 Dyce Collection at South Kensington Museum. 
 
 1867. 
 The Window : or, The Loves of the 
 Wrens. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., 
 
42 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1867- 
 
 Poet Laureate. Woodcut of Canford Manor, 
 4to. Canford Manor, =,(j>, x> 7. 1867. 
 
 Collation : Quarto, pp. 19 (unnumbered), 
 
 (i) Title as above (verso blank); (2) I page contain- 
 ing monogram of Sir Ivor Bertie Guest (verso blank) ; 
 (3) Half-title : "The Window ; or, The Loves of the 
 Wrens " (verso blank) ; (4) Dedication : " These little 
 songs, whose almost sole merit, at least till they are 
 wedded to music, is that they are so excellently printed, 
 I dedicate to the printer" (verso blank), pp. 5 to 19 
 printed on recto only. 
 
 Size: io|x8. 
 
 A series of twelve so'ngs, connected by the slender 
 thread of a pretty love-story successful in its issue. 
 Printed at the private press of Sir Ivor Bertie Guest : 
 a very small edition was struck off, and a copy appear- 
 ing in the market commands a high price. The text 
 differs considerably from that of the edition published 
 three or four years later, with Mr. Arthur Sullivan's 
 music. 
 
 The Victim. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., 
 
 Poet Laureate. Woodcut of Canford Manor, 
 
 4to. Canford Manor, =, f, ^, 7, 1867. 
 
 Printed at the Private Press of Sir Ivor 
 
 Bertie Guest. 
 
 Collation : (Quarto, pp. 9 (unnumbered). 
 
 (i) 'Title as above (verso blank) ; (?) i page contain- 
 
1868.] OF TENNYSON. 43 
 
 ing monogram of Sir Ivor Bertie Guest (verso blank) ; 
 (3) Half-title : "The Victim" (verso blank), pp. 4 
 to 9 printed on recto only. 
 
 Size : io| x 8. 
 
 This poem appeared shortly afterwards in Good Words, 
 and was reprinted among the minor poems in the volume 
 of " The Holy Grail," etc. ( 1 870). The separate privately- 
 printed edition is a rarity ; but, of course, is of less 
 interest, as it is also of less bulk, than " The Window." 
 
 It is stated on good authority that the signs on this 
 and " The Window," = , c^, J^, 7, are the private marks 
 of the amateur compositors — viz.. Lord Wimborne, 
 Lady Layard, Lady C. Schreiber, Mrs. E. Ponsonby. 
 
 1868. 
 WageS; Ten lines. Macmillan's Magazine, 
 February, 1868 (Vol. XVII., p. 271). 
 Reprinted in "The Holy Grail," 1870. 
 
 1 865-1 866 (Old and New Year). Good 
 
 Words, March, 1868. 
 
 This short poem was never re-published by the 
 author in any volume or collected edition of his works. 
 
 Lucretius. Macmillan's Magazine, May, 
 1868, 280 lines. 
 
 Reprinted, with an alteration in the last line, in the 
 volume of " The Holy Grail and other Poems" (1870). 
 
44 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1869- 
 
 1869. 
 Sermons by the Late William Henry 
 Brookfield. With a Memoir by Lord 
 Lyttelton, containing a Memorial Sonnet 
 to Brookfield by Alfred Tennyson, Lon- 
 don : 1869, 8vo. 
 
 Reprinted in "Ballads and other Poems," 1880. 
 
 I 869-1 870. 
 The Holy Grail, and Other Poems, By 
 Alfred Tennyson. Lond. : Alexander 
 Strahan, 1870, pp. 222 (published in 
 December, 1869). 
 
 Contents : " The Coming of Arthur ;" "The Holy 
 Grail;" " Pelleas and Ettarre j» and, "The Passing 
 of Arthur " (with which is incorporated the poem 
 of "Morte d' Arthur," originally published in 1842). 
 These four poems formed a second series or instalment 
 of " Idylls of the King," which afterwards received still 
 further additions. 
 
 Other new poems are : " The Northern Farmer 
 (New style);" "The Higher Pantheism;" and a 
 versified story from Boccaccio, " The Golden Supper," 
 originally intended to have been preceded, as it after- 
 
1 87 1.] OF TENNYSON. 45 
 
 wards was, by a revised reprint of the early poem 
 of " The Lover's Tale," to which it forms a sequel ; 
 all these appear for the first time ; and the three 
 poems of " Lucretius," " Wages " and " The Victim," 
 already published in Macmillan's Magazine and else- 
 where, were reprinted among the miscellaneous poems 
 that closed this volume. 
 
 1870-1871. 
 The Window ; or the Songs of the 
 Wrens. With music by Arthur Sullivan 
 and a prose preface signed by the author. 
 London : Strahan, 1871 (December, 1870), 
 folio, bound in ornamental cloth, with 
 design. 
 
 The text varies considerably from that of the 
 privately-printed edition ; and in the actual volume 
 described above the printed text and that engraved with 
 the score of the Song frequently differ. These songs 
 were not included for some years afterwards in the col- 
 lected editions of the Poet's Works. 
 
 In a Concordance to the Works of Alfred Tennyson, 
 compiled by Mr. Barron Brightwell (large 8vo., green 
 cloth), issued by the firm of Moxon and Co., in 1869, 
 just as Tennyson was leaving the house he had been 
 connected with for seven-and-thirty years and trans- 
 ferring his books to that of Alexander Strahan, alpha- 
 
46 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1871- 
 
 betical references were made to the privately-printed 
 poem of " The Window," not then published. These 
 I was able, with some labour and effort, to piece together, 
 and with the compiler's aid, who supplied the lacuna 
 (though he had promised not to give any one a copy), 
 I was enabled to secure what was substantially the 
 complete text of the twelve songs, as privately printed 
 at Canford Manor, more than a year before the appear- 
 ance of the published edition. I printed a few copies 
 privately, as a little pamphlet of sixteen pages, uniform 
 in size with Moxon's editions of the poet's other works, 
 and in December, 1870, 1 wrote two anticipatory notices 
 which appeared in the Echo, some days or weeks before 
 the publication of the volume containing Mr. Arthur 
 Sullivan's music, much to the indignation of the pub- 
 lisher, the printers, and I suppose of the author. 
 
 A rival concordajice to Mr. Barron Brightwell's 
 guinea book, of much smaller size, was issued by 
 Tennyson's new publishers, Strahan and Co. The 
 price was six shillings, or seven shillings and sixpence. 
 
 :87i. 
 Miniature or Cabinet Edition of the 
 Complete Poetical Works of Alfred 
 Tennyson, printed by Whittingham, at 
 the Chiswick Press, and issued in ten small 
 half-crown volumes, in blue paper wrappers. 
 London : Strahan and Co., 1871. 
 
1872.] OF TENNYSON. 47 
 
 This was the first collected Edition of Tennyson's 
 works published in England. A new thirty-third 
 section was added or restored to " In Memoriam " in 
 this edition, raising the latest number of sections to 132. 
 
 The Last Tournament. By Alfred Tenny- 
 son, Contemporary Review, December, 
 1 87 1, lines 22. 
 
 Forming the first of a third series of " Idylls of the 
 King." The text of a passage towards the end of the 
 poem was materially altered when it reappeared, in 
 book form, in the following year : this is one of the few 
 important or considerable alterations made in the text 
 of " Idylls of the King," after publication. 
 
 1872. 
 
 Lines for the opening of the International 
 
 Exhibition. 
 
 Printed in the newspapers ; and included in the Red 
 Cloth Edition of Tennyson's Works. 
 
 Gareth and Lynette (and the Last 
 Tournament). By Alfred Tennyson, 
 London : Strahan and Co., 1872, small 
 8vo., green cloth, pp. 1 36. 
 The third series of " Idylls of the King." 
 
48 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1872- 
 
 The Library Edition of the Works of 
 Alfred Tennyson. In Seven Volumes, 
 published at half-a-guinea each, London : 
 Strahan and Co., 1872, large 8vo., 
 cloth. 
 
 The first volume contained two additional early 
 sonnets, — " The Bridesmaid," and "Alexander," pub- 
 olished, apparently, for the first time. In this edition 
 a further selection was made from the " Poems, Chiefly 
 Lyrical" of 1830, and some rejected pieces were 
 reinstated. In the third volume were included and 
 acknowledged for the first time, one of the Examiner 
 poems, " The Third of February, 1852," and the second 
 of the two Punch poems of 1 846, under the new title of 
 "Literary Squabbles." The latter was accompanied by 
 a reprint, considerably altered, of the lines originally 
 contributed to Once-a-Week, "On a Spiteful Letter." 
 
 The sixth and seventh volumes contained the com- 
 plete " Idylls of the King " (the three series arranged 
 in their proper sequence), with some concluding lines, 
 in blank verse, " To the Queen," published for the 
 first time. 
 
 1873-1874. 
 
 Small Red-cloth Popular Edition of the 
 Works of Alfred Tennyson. In 12 
 
1875.] OF TENNYSON. 49 
 
 volumes. London : H. S. King and Co., 
 1 873-1 874. 
 
 Three original unpublished poems appeared for the 
 first time in this edition, viz., " England and America 
 in 1772 " (contributed to an American newspaper in 
 1872) ; " The Voice and the Peak" ; and the Stanzas 
 on the death of Sir John Simeon, entitled "In the 
 Garden at Swainston." Some considerable additions 
 were made to the text of two of the " Idylls of the 
 King,"—" The Coming of Arthur " and " Vivien." 
 
 A Welcome (to Marie Alexandre vna, Duchess 
 of Edinburgh), 4to. , 4 pp. , 18 74. London : 
 H. S. King and Co. (rare in this separate 
 form). 
 
 The verses were printed in the Times newspaper on 
 the morning of the royal marriage. 
 
 1875. 
 The Lover's Tale, and Other Poems. 
 By Alfred Tennyson. Now First Col- 
 lected. With a Monograph on the Lover's 
 Tale, forming a supplementary Chapter to 
 " Tennysoniana." pp. xii., 64. 1875. 
 
 4 
 
50 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1875- 
 
 Colladon : — Title ; Table of Contents ; Mono- 
 graph, pp. xii. 
 
 "The Lover's Tale"; "No More"; "Ana- 
 creontics " ; "A Fragment " ; Sonnet, " Check every 
 outflash, every ruder sally '' ; Sonnet, " There are 
 three things that fill my heart with sighs " ; Sonnet, 
 " Me my own Fate to lasting sorrow doometh " ; 
 " The New Timon and the Poets " ; " Here often, 
 when a child, I lay reclined"; "Sonnet to Macready"; 
 " What time I wasted youthful hours " ; " Hands all 
 Round " ; " Britons, guard your own " ; Stanzas added 
 to the National Anthem ; "The War " (May, 1859) ; 
 Inscription for the Mausoleum of the Duchess of Kent ; 
 " Old and New Year" (i 865-1 866). 
 
 "The Lover's Tale "was originally printed (1870) 
 by Strangeways and Walden, and again (1875) with 
 the Minor Poems, by Ogden. The latter reprint is 
 disfigured by two clerical errors unobserved in the 
 final proof-sheets and which had to be corrected by 
 errata. The former reprint is therefore preferable 
 (where procurable) as regards the principal poem : as 
 the pagination is the same either will fit into the 
 volume. The contents and monograph were printed 
 in 1875 by Messrs. Brawn ; and the copies bound in 
 boards and otherwise were bound by De Coverly. 
 
 Queen Mary. By Alfred Tennyson, 
 London: H. S. King and Co., 1875, 
 green cloth, pp. 278. 
 
1877.] OF TENNYSON. 51 
 
 This historical play, partly in prose, was produced 
 on the stage, at the Lyceum Theatre, in 1876, with 
 Mr. Henry Irving as Philip of Spain, and Miss Bate- 
 man (Mrs. Crowe) as Queen Mary. A patriotic 
 utterance of a line or two, not contained in the 
 published editions, was interpolated, in the acting 
 version, in one of the speeches of the Queen ; and, 
 being quite Shakesperian in its ring, like certain 
 utterances attributed to Cymbeline and to King John, 
 it brought down the house. Probably these lines 
 appeared in one or other of the numerous newspaper 
 notices of the performance ; but they do not seem to 
 have been added permanently, in later editions, to the 
 text of the published play. 
 
 1877. 
 
 Harold. A Drama. By Alfred Tenny- 
 son. (With a Prefatory Sonnet, "Show- 
 Day at Battle Abbey.") Dedicated to the 
 Earl of Lytton, Governor -General of 
 India. London : H. S. King and Co., 
 1877, green cloth, pp. 161. 
 
52 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1877- 
 
 1877. 
 Prefatory Sonnet to The Nineteenth 
 Century, edited by James Knowles, and 
 published by Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 
 No. I., March, 1877. 
 
 Montenegro : a Sonnet. Ditto, May, 
 1877 (No. III.). 
 
 To Victor Hugo (Sonnet). Ditto, June, 
 1877 (No. IV.). 
 
 Achilles over the Trench. (A transla- 
 tion in blank verse from the " Iliad " 
 of Homer.) Thirty-three lines. Ditto, 
 August, 1877 (No. VI.). 
 
 All reprinted in " Ballads and Other Poems" (1880). 
 
 1878. 
 ' The Revenge ' : a Ballad of the Fleet. 
 Nineteenth Century, March, 1878 (No. 
 XIII.). Fourteen stanzas of varying length. 
 Reprinted in " Ballads and Other Poems" (1880). 
 
1878.] OF TENNYSON. 53 
 
 [In 1878 two stanzas appeared in Punch 
 (preceded by a quotation from a leading 
 article in that ne plus ultra of political 
 tergiversation, the Daily Telegraph). The 
 quotation and the stanzas, as nearly as I 
 can recollect, ran as follows : 
 
 " Of Mr. Gladstone we may say, with Imogen, 
 ' My lord, I fear, has forgot Britain ' ;* and History 
 will add, as Jachimo does, 'And himself.' "t 
 
 " ' Has forgot Britain ' ? Blatant buncombe shapes 
 A Britain generous Britons would disown ; 
 
 A mock-Britannia, whose stage-ermine drapes 
 A sham, of selfish frothiness upblown. 
 
 The truest lover of his land is not 
 
 The tap-room patriot of the pipe and pot. 
 
 '" Forgot himself ? Ay, in a nobler sort 
 Than sordid self-regard can understand. 
 
 What, brave the loud reproach, the foul report. 
 The taunt of treason to his native land ! 
 
 Say, what can base Jachimo do less 
 
 Than scoff at such fine self-forgetfulness ?" 
 
 I have always been inclined, since first seeing them, 
 on the day of publication, to attribute these lines to 
 
 [* Cymbeline, Act I., sc. 7.] 
 t Daily Telegraph. 
 
54 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1879- 
 
 the Poet Laureate ; and to exclaim, " Jiut Tennyson, 
 aut diabolus" ; nor have I ever wavered for one day 
 in my opinion, that the writer of the political poems 
 in the Examiner of 1852, the poet who contributed 
 twice to the columns of Punch in 1 846, and the writer 
 of the above stanzas, were one and the same person.] 
 
 1879. 
 
 The Lover's Tale [including a Third Part, 
 previously inedited, and a Fourth Part, 
 originally published in 1870 (1869), under 
 the title of " The Golden Supper," with 
 a Prose Preface] . London : Kegan Paul, 
 1879, green cloth, pp. 95. 
 
 The Defence of Lucknow, with a Dedi- 
 catory Poem to the Princess Alice. Nine- 
 teenth Century, April, 1879 (No, XXVI.). 
 The Dedicatory Poem" twenty-one lines ; 
 the " Defence " consists of seven pages, in 
 seven sections. 
 
 Reprinted in "Ballads and Other Poems" (1880). 
 
i88o.J OF TENNYSON ss 
 
 1880. 
 
 Collected Sonnets and other Poems. 
 By the late Charles Tennyson Turner, 
 Vicar of Grasby, Lincolnshire, with a short 
 notice of his Life by Hallam Tennyson, 
 and Memorial Stanzas by the Poet Laureate. 
 Lond. : 1880. 
 
 Stanzas reprinted in " Tiresias, and Other Poems " 
 (1885), with the words " Midnight, June 30." 
 
 (The stanzas were written in the summer of 1 879, 
 shortly after his elder brother's death.) 
 
 De Profundis : " Two Greetings " (four 
 pages) ; " The Human Cry" (two stanzas). 
 Nineteenth Century, May, 1880 (No. 
 XXXIX.). 
 
 Reprinted in " Ballads and Other Poems " (1880). 
 
 Ballads and Other Poems. By Alfred 
 Tennyson. London: Kegan Paul, 1880, 
 green cloth, pp. 1 84. 
 
 Contents : " To my grandson," Alfred Tennyson ; 
 " Rizpah " ; " The Children's Hospital " ; " The 
 Northern Cobbler" ; " De Profundis"; "The Human 
 
56 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1880- 
 
 Cry" ; " The Battle of Brunanburg " ; " The Sisters" ; 
 "The Defence of Lucknow"; '"The Revenge': a Ballad 
 of the Fleet"; "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade," etc., 
 with dedicatory lines to Sir Edward Hamley; "Sonnet 
 to W. H. Brookfield " ; " Sir John Franklin " ; " To the 
 Princess Frederica on her Marriage" ; "Dante" (written 
 at the request of the Florentines), etc. 
 
 Child Songs, by Alfred Tennyson : 
 " The City Child"; " Minnie and Winnie." 
 Sl Nicholas, New York, February, 1880 
 (Vol. VII., p. 281). Set to music by Mrs. 
 Alfred Tennyson, ditto, p. 349 and (March, 
 1880) pp. 428-430 of the same volume. 
 
 Reprinted in the Poet's Collected Works (1886), 
 Vol. V. 
 
 1881. 
 
 Despair: a Dramatic Monologue. Nine- 
 teenth Century, November, 1881 (No. 
 LVII.). Twenty-one stanzas of varying 
 length. 
 
 Reprinted in "Tiresias, and Other Poems" (1885). 
 
1 8 82.] OF TENNYSON. 57 
 
 1882. 
 
 The Promise of May. [A Play partly in 
 prose, partly in blank verse, with Songs 
 interposed.] Produced at the Globe 
 Theatre, Nov. 11, 1882, with Mr. Her- 
 mann Vezin as Edgar, and Mrs. Bernard- 
 Beere as Dora Steer. 
 
 This play, though it had some weeks' run, as a succh 
 d'estime, was practically and deservedly damned by the 
 pit on the first night. The Poet hesitated even to pub- 
 lish it for some years afterwards, or to weight or swell 
 the small volume of " The Falcon and the Cup " with 
 it. When it did at last appear in 1887, it appeared 
 under cover of a long lyrical poem, the name of which 
 had been a popular one for forty-five years ; and crept 
 into the volume without any announcement or notice 
 on the title-page. 
 
 The Song of " The Promise of May " was printed 
 on the programme sold or distributed at the theatre at 
 the representation ; and it seems probable that a small 
 edition of the entire piece was privately printed at the 
 time for the use of the actors and actresses and of others 
 concerned in its production. This, however, is mere 
 conjecture on my part. I never saw or heard of a copy 
 of such an edition. 
 
58 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1882- 
 
 Charge of the Heavy Brigade, with a 
 Note. Macmillan's Magazine, March, 
 1882 (Vol. XLV., pp. 337-339)- 
 
 Reprinted in " Tiresias, and Other Poems " (1885). 
 
 To Virgil : Written at the request of the 
 Mantuans for the nineteenth century of 
 Virgil's death. Nineteenth Century, Septem- 
 ber, 1882 (No. LXVII.). Ten stanzas. 
 
 Reprinted in "Tiresias, and Other Poems " (1885). 
 
 A new version of " Hands all Round," con- 
 taining only three stanzas, was set to music 
 by Mrs. Tennyson, and sung by Santley. 
 
 Included in " Tiresias, and Other Poems" (1885). 
 
 1883. 
 
 Frater AVE ATQUE VALE (Sirmio). Nine- 
 teenth Century, M2crch., 1 883 (No. LXXIII.). 
 Nine lines. 
 Reprinted in "Tiresias, and Other Poems " (1885). 
 
1884.J OF TENNYSON. 59 
 
 1884. 
 
 Becket. By Alfred Tennyson. Lond. : 
 Macmillan and Co., 1884, green cloth, 
 pp. 213. 
 
 Produced at the Lyceum Theatre by Henry Irving, 
 in 1893. 
 
 The Falcon and the Cup. London: 
 Macmillan and Co., 1884. Thin volume, 
 green cloth, pp. 146. 
 
 " The Falcon " — a short dramatic sketch founded, 
 like the " Golden Supper," on a story in Boccaccio's 
 " Decameron," — was produced at the St. James's 
 Theatre, under the management of the Kendals, with 
 Mr. Kendal as Federigo, and Mrs. Kendal (Madge 
 Robertson) as his lady-love. " The Cup " — a classical 
 drama — was produced at the Lyceum, in 1881, with 
 Miss Ellen Terry as Camma. Neither of these plays 
 had been published at the time ; and it therefore seems 
 probable that a small edition of both viras privately 
 printed, for the use of the actors, and of other persons 
 connected with the production of these pieces. I 
 merely hazard this as a conjecture, but do not possess 
 special information on the subject ; still less did I ever 
 see or hear of a copy of either. The lengthy quota- 
 tions given from " The Cup," however, in some of the 
 
6o THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1884- 
 
 newspaper notices of the dramatic critics, could hardly 
 proceed from skill in the art of shorthand reporting, 
 or from phenomenal faculties of memory, exercised 
 while their attention was supposed to be concentrated 
 on the technique and details of the acting. 
 
 Early Spring. Youth's Companion, Boston, 
 1884. 
 
 Reprinted in two English newspapers, one of them 
 the Pall Mall Gazette. 
 
 Also contained in " Tiresias, and Other Poems " 
 (1885). 
 
 1885. 
 
 Tiresias, and Other Poems. By Alfred, 
 Lord Tennyson. London : Macmillan and 
 Co., green cloth, 1885, pp. 204. 
 
 Contents : . Dedication to Edward Fitzgerald ; 
 " Tiresias "; " Balin and Balan," a new Idyll of the 
 King; " The Voyage of Maeldune "; " Early Spring "; 
 "Despair "; " To Virgil," etc., etc. 
 
 Helen's Tower. 
 
 " Helen's Tower, here I stand." 
 
 Short inscription, in verse, written at the request of 
 the Marquis of Dufferin, for a tower built in memory 
 
1885.] OF TENNYSON. 61 
 
 of his mother, Helen, Lady DufFerin, Countess of 
 Gifford. Printed in Good Words, 1884, p. 25, with the 
 verses of Lady GifFord, and a description of the tower 
 by Charles Blatherwick. See 1861. 
 
 The Fleet. Stanzas, signed " Tennyson," 
 printed in the Times newspaper, of April 
 23, 1885. 
 
 Vastness. Macmillan' s Magazine, Novem- 
 ber, 1885 (Vol. LIII., pp. 1-4). Fifteen 
 two-line stanzas. 
 Reprinted in " Demeter, and Other Poems " (1889). 
 
 To H.R.H. Princess Beatrice. Twenty- 
 two lines. Privately printed. 
 
 This poem was written by the Poet for her marriage, 
 and did not appear till some months after ; but a copy 
 of this private print, bearing the date 1885, is in the 
 British Museum, bearing the words, in Tennyson's 
 handwriting : " T. F. Palgrave, from A. Tennyson." 
 
 Reprinted in " Tiresias, and Other Poems " (1885). 
 
 The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord 
 Tennyson. Complete Edition, from the 
 author's text. New York : Thomas Y. 
 Crowell and Co., 1885, large 8vo., brown 
 cloth, pp. 896. 
 
62 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1886- 
 
 Contains all the suppressed poems then known, " The 
 Ringlet," and original versions of two songs from " The 
 Princess," " Lady, let the rolling drums," and " Home 
 they brought him, slain with spears," scarcely identi- 
 fiable with the published versions. 
 
 1886. 
 
 The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord 
 Tennyson. In ten volumes, green doth. 
 Final Edition, revised by the Author, and 
 including his latest Additions and Correc- 
 tions. With portraits, etc. London : 
 Macmillan and Co., 1886. 
 
 1887. 
 Carmen S^culare. An ode in honour 
 of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Mac- 
 millan' s Magazine, Aprils 1887 (Vol. LV., 
 pp. 401-406). 
 
 Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, etc. 
 By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. London : 
 Macmillan and Co., 1887, green cloth, 
 pp. 201. 
 
1887.] OF TENNYSON. 63 
 
 Contents: " Locksley Hall Sixty Years After"; 
 "The Fleet" (from the Times); "Jubilee Ode" 
 (from MacmilMs Magazine) ; " The Promise of May ; 
 a Drama," 
 
 POEMS AND FRAGMENTS OF 
 LATER BATE, NOT REPRINTED. 
 
 Compromise. Printed in the Pall Mall 
 
 Gazette, 188 . 
 
 " Statesman, be not precipitate in thine act." 
 
 A short rhymed poem of eight or ten, or at most 
 twelve, lines. 
 
 Fragment, of four lines, contributed, as an 
 Experiment in Metre, to Jebb's " Primer of 
 Greek Literature," Macmillan and Co., 
 1877, p. 60. 
 
 Fragment, of a few unpublished lines, con- 
 tributed to " Ros Rosarum " : an Antho- 
 logy, published by Elliot Stock, London, 
 1885, p. 230. 
 
 Unpublished Lines contributed to two Fancy 
 Fair Albums, 188 . 
 
64 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1889- 
 
 1889. 
 To Edward Lear, and other poems, illus- 
 trated by Edward Lear. London : Boussod, 
 Valadon, and Co., 1889, pp. 51. One 
 hundred numbered copies only, signed by 
 the Poet, with a special dedication from 
 his pen. 
 
 The Throstle. New Review, October, 
 1889 (Vol. I., p. 409). Four stanzas. 
 
 This poem was purchased by Mr. S. S. McCIure for 
 £1 50, who printed it in a syndicate of American news- 
 papers, and sold it to the New Review and the Scotsman. 
 In order to protect the copyright Messrs. Macmillan 
 and Co., at the time of the sale, May i6, 1889, pub- 
 lished it privately, and it is said that of this edition 
 only two copies are known to exist. 
 
 Reprinted in "Demeter, and Other Poems" (1889). 
 
 Demeter, and Other Poems. By Alfred, 
 Lord Tennyson. London : Macmillan and 
 Co., 1889, green cloth, pp. 175. (Pub- 
 lished in December, 1889.) 
 Contents : " To the Marquis of DufFerin and Ava "; 
 "Demeter"; "To W. G. Palgrave "; "To Mary 
 Boyle "; " On the Death of W. G. Ward "; a number 
 of short minor poems ; and " Crossing the Bar.'' 
 
1892.J OF TENNYSON. 65 
 
 1891. 
 A Song. " To Sleep." New Review, March, 
 1 891 (vol. iv., p. 193). Nine lines, a 
 lyric from " The Foresters," published in 
 1892. 
 
 Four Lines, signed " Tennyson," introduc- 
 ing " Pearl, an English Poem of the Four- 
 teenth Century," edited by Israel Gollancz. 
 London: David Nutt, 1891. 
 
 1892. 
 On the Death of the Duke of Clarence 
 
 AND AvONDALE. To THE MoURNERS. 
 
 Seventeen lines, signed " Tennyson." 
 Nineteenth Century, February,- 1892 (vol. 
 xxxi.,pp. 181, 182). Dated Jan. 14, 1892. 
 
 The Foresters : Robin Hood and Maid 
 Marian. A play presented at Daly's 
 Theatre, New York, March 17, 1892, and 
 rehearsed for copyright purposes by mem- 
 bers of Henry Irving's company at the 
 Lyceum, London, at ten o'clock in the 
 
 5 
 
66 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1892. 
 
 morning of the same day. It was called 
 " A Woodland Masque." 
 
 A contract was signed for production by Mary 
 Anderson in 1891, but her marriage prevented it. One 
 song was inserted for Ada Rehan, who played the part 
 of Maid Marian when the play was produced • in 
 New York, March, 1892. 
 
 Published in book form by Macmillan and Co., 
 London, March 29, 1892, green cloth, pp. 155. 
 
 Died, October 6, 1892. 
 
 Silent Voices. Ten lines, published privately 
 for copyright purposes by Macmillan and 
 Co., London, Oct. 12 (day of funeral), on 
 a single sheet of letterpress. Taken from 
 " The Death of CEnone," then on the point 
 of publication, and sung at the Abbey (the 
 music by Lady Tennyson). " Crossing the 
 Bar " was also sung — setting by Dr. Bridge. 
 
 The Death of CEnone, Akbar's Dream, 
 AND Other Poems. By Alfred, Lord 
 Tennyson, Poet Laureate. London : 
 Macmillan and Co., green cloth, pp. iii. 
 Also large paper edition " with five steel 
 portraits of the author." 
 
1892.] OF TENNYSON. 67 
 
 Published the latter part of October, 1892. The 
 proof was all revised by the Poet a fortnight before his 
 death. 
 
 Contents: "June Bracken and Heather. To "; 
 
 "To the Master of Balliol"; "St. Telemachus"; 
 " The Bandit's Death "; " The Churchwarden and the 
 Curate"; "Charity"; " Kapiolani"; " The Dawn "; 
 "The Making of Man"; "The Dreamer"; "Rifle- 
 men, form"; "Silent Voices"; "The Death of the 
 Duke of Clarence and Avondale," the title poems, and 
 a few others. 
 
 A note says " Riflemen, form '' was republished by 
 request from the Times, May 9, 1859. Some of the 
 verses were altered slightly. 
 
 In Memoriam. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 
 born August 5, 1809, died October 6, 1892, 
 An entirely unauthorized folio sheet, bear- 
 ing a portrait of the Poet, and reprints of 
 the poems " Crossing the Bar " and " A 
 Poem " (" Come not when I am dead "), 
 sold on the streets the day of the funeral 
 (October 12, 1892) for twopence. 
 
 Westminster Abbey. Funeral of the Right 
 Honourable Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, 
 Wednesday, Oct. 12, 1892, at 12.30 p.m. 
 Order of service, with reprints of " Crossing 
 
68 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1893- 
 
 the Bar " and " Silent Voices " (the latter 
 not then known to the public). 
 
 1893. 
 
 Becket, a tragedy in a prologue and four 
 acts, was presented by Henry Irving, at the 
 Lyceum Theatre, London, February 6, 
 1893. An edition of the play " as arranged 
 for the stage by Henry Irving," published 
 by Macmillan and Co., in paper covers, 
 pp. 62. Much abridged. 
 
 Poems, by Two Brothers. London: Mac- 
 millan and Co., 1893, green cloth, pp. 251. 
 Also large paper edition with facsimiles of 
 ten pages of original MS. Second edition. 
 
 The first edition was printed in 1827 and never 
 reprinted in the poet's life -time. The Cambridge 
 branch of the publishing house of Macmillan and Co., 
 having purchased the original MS., a reprint of the 
 original copy vvas made by Macmillan and Co., of 
 London, with four additional poems found only in 
 the MS., and " Timbuctoo," reprinted from " Pro- 
 lusiones." There is a preface signed " Tennyson " by 
 Hallam Tennyson, and initials are appended to the 
 
1894.J OF TENNYSON. 69 
 
 poems according to the handwriting as judged by 
 Frederick, Alfred Tennyson's brother. Beside the new 
 poems, all signed "A. T.," forty-nine of the original 
 poems have the initials "A. T.," some with alternative 
 or question. It is requested that these poems be not 
 reprinted in the Poet Laureate's collected works, as Mr. 
 Frederick Tennyson cannot be certain of the author- 
 ship indicated, except of the four which bear his own 
 initials. 
 
 1894. 
 
 The Works of Alfred Tennyson. 
 London : Macmillan and Co., 1894. 
 
 Contains all the Poet's acknowledged work, including 
 the " Demeter " volume and the " Death of CEnone." 
 
70 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1893. 
 
 LETTERS AND OTHER PROSE 
 WRITING. 
 
 Very few private letters of Tennyson have 
 seen the light. A very short one to Lady 
 Ashburton (1855), of small significance, is 
 facsimiled in the Autographic Mirror ; and a 
 curious and discursive letter (presumably 
 genuine) to some unknown correspondent, on 
 an abstruse metaphysical question, crept into 
 some of the newspapers a few years ago. 
 There are two or three brief letters to the 
 Times ; corrections of misprints in his Exhi- 
 bition Ode of 1862, a protest against a new 
 line of railway in the Isle of Wight, etc., and 
 a letter to Mr. Hamilton Hume, in defence 
 of Governor Eyre, who had in his youth been 
 an alumnus of the Louth Grammar School, 
 shortly after Tennyson's departure for Cam- 
 bridge ; and a letter to a Society recommend- 
 ing for their choice a Welsh motto, displayed 
 in his own hall, at Farringford or Blackdown, 
 " The truth against the world." Two in- 
 teresting and comparatively lengthy letters, of 
 
1 893-] OF TENNYSON. 71 
 
 early date, are printed in the first volume of 
 Mr. Wemyss Reid's " Memoir (published in 
 1890) of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord 
 Houghton," a fellow-collegian of Tennyson 
 at Trinity College, Cambridge ; the second, 
 confirming a statement of Alford's, that he 
 had seen an unpublished poem of Tennyson's 
 entitled " Anacaona," of which Milnes ap- 
 parently possessed a transcript ; as he had 
 playfully threatened Tennyson to publish the 
 poem in The Tribute (1837) i^ "° other 
 original contribution were forthcoming. In 
 later years, partly through failing powers of 
 vision, the Poet's letters, except to very inti- 
 mate friends, were generally dictated to his 
 wife or eldest son, or written by them in the 
 third person, in accordance with his instruc- 
 tions. Autograph letters of his, especially 
 those of later date, are of the utmost rarity. 
 The Prefaces, Notes, and prose Dedications 
 to his published or privately-printed poems 
 are also very few and scanty, so that scarcely 
 any specimen of sustained prose from his pen 
 has appeared, if any such exist. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Scheme for a final and definitive Edition of 
 the Complete Poetical and Dramatic Works 
 of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, including all his 
 suppressed or unacknowledged Poems, and 
 the Readings of the various Editions. (With 
 Indexes and Appendices.) To be completed 
 in Fifteen Volumes. 
 
 PROPOSED CONTENTS OF THE FIFTEEN 
 VOLUMES. 
 
 Vol. I. Juvenilia, 1 827-1 832. 
 
 Vol. II. Poems printed or written prior to the 
 
 death of Arthur Hallam, 1830-183 3. 
 Vol. III. In Memoriam (with various readings). 
 Vol. IV. The Princess (vyith various readings). 
 Vol. V. English Idylls (with various readings). 
 Vol. VI. Classical Poems (with various readings). 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TENNYSON. 73 
 
 Vol. VIT. Patriotic and Laureate Poems (with 
 various readings). 
 
 Vol. VIII. Maud ; and The Window, or the Loves 
 of the Wren (with various readings). 
 
 Vols. IX., X. Miscellaneous Later Poems, comprising 
 the later Versions, as re-written, of some of the 
 Poems ofi832-i833; Poems, Narrative, Elegiac 
 and Lyrical (not included under the above head- 
 ings) ; Ballads ; Poems addressed to friends ; 
 Sonnets ; Experiments ; Dialect Poems ; " Nugae "; 
 and Fragments (with various readings). 
 
 Vols. XL, XII. Idylls of the King (with various 
 readings). 
 
 Vols. XIIL, XIV. and XV. Dramatic Works. 
 
 Detailed Contents of Vol. I. (Juvenilia, 
 1827-1832.) 
 
 1. Alfred Tennyson's contributions to " Poems, by 
 
 Two Brothers," 1827 (separated by internal 
 and external evidence). 
 
 2. The original Fragment of " The Lover's Tale," 
 
 as written in 1828, with the original Preface, 
 as privately printed in 1833. 
 
 3. The Cambridge Prize Poem, " Timbuctoo."* 
 
 * [The couplet which forms a motto to this Prize 
 Poem : 
 
 "Deep in that lion-haunted inland lies 
 A mystic City, goal of high Emprize," 
 
74 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 4. ThesuppressedandcancelledPoems from " Poems, 
 
 Chiefly Lyrical," 1830 ; all those not reinstated 
 or restored in the latest collected Editions.* 
 
 5. Three poems from the Gem of 1831 : "No 
 
 More" ; "Anacreontics" ; and "A Fragment." 
 
 6. The suppressed and cancelled poems from "Poems, 
 
 Edward Moxon, 1833"; all those not reinstated 
 or restored in the latest collected editions.* 
 Index of first lines. 
 
 Appendix:. 
 
 Notice of" Timbuctoo " in the Athenaum of 1829. 
 
 Detailed Contents of Vol. II. (Poems 
 printed or written prior to the death of 
 Arthur Hallam. 1830-1833.) 
 
 I. "Poems, Chiefly Lyirical," those retained in the 
 edition of 1842, or restored and reinstated in 
 later collected editions of Tennyson's Works. 
 
 is there attributed to " Chapman." Mr. Swinburne 
 told me, in 1874, when we were conferring on the 
 forthcoming edition of Chapman, that he believed this 
 couplet to be Tennyson's own. It certainly proved 
 indiscoverable in any of Chapman's original Poems or 
 Translations, where it could hardly have failed to 
 arrest the Editor's attention, either in preparing the 
 " copy " or in correcting the proof-sheets.] 
 
 (* Except a few in Nos. I, 4 and 6, included under 
 other headings.) 
 
OF TENNYSON. 75 
 
 2. Poems of 1832-1833, those retained in the 
 
 edition of 1842, or restored and reinstated in 
 later collected editions of Tennyson's Works. 
 (The original versions only of " The Lady of 
 Shalott," " (Enone," " The Miller's Daughter," 
 and " The Palace of Art.") 
 
 3. Poems added, and first printed in the first volume 
 
 of the edition of 1842, said to have been 
 "written (with one exception) in 1833." 
 
 4. " The Two Voices,'' from the second volume of 
 
 the edition of 1842, bearing there the date 
 (afterwards dropped) of "1833." As the first 
 twenty-eight sections of " In Memoriam " were 
 composed in the autumn and early winter 
 (Sept.-Dec.) of 1833, it is highly improbable 
 that so long a poem as "The Two Voices" 
 should have been produced at the same period 
 and during the first poignancy of the Poet's 
 anguish. It may therefore be assumed with 
 tolerable certainty to have been written during 
 Arthur Hallam's lifetime, and was pirobably 
 seen by him. 
 
 Index of First Lines. 
 
 Appendix (to Vol. II.). 
 
 Arthur Hallam's Review of "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical," 
 from the Englishman's Magazine. 
 
 Extract from the article in the Westminster Review. 
 
 Extract from the article by Christopher North, in 
 Blackteocd's Magazine, 
 
 Extract from the article in the Quarterly Review, 
 1833- 
 
76 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 Volume III, 
 "In Memoriam." 
 
 Appendix, 
 
 Index of First Lines. 
 
 Verbal Index of i86z (altered and enlarged to in- 
 clude the new thirty-third Section subse- 
 quently inserted). 
 
 Notes on the Life and Remains of Arthur Hallam 
 (1811-1833). 
 
 Collection of the various readings of "In Memoriam," 
 and Notes on a set of early proof-sheets, printed 
 in 1849, 
 
 Detailed Contents of Vol, IV, (" The 
 Princess : a Medley,") 
 
 A careful collation of the text of the first five 
 editions (1847-18 5 3), with the various read- 
 ings, and omitted passages, in foot-note or 
 appendix form. 
 
 Variations of two of the songs in " The Princess," 
 published in the volume of selections, 1864- 
 1865. 
 
 Index of First Lines to the Prologue, Interlude and 
 Epilogue ; to the Seven Books and to the six 
 Songs, 
 
OF TENNYSON. 77 
 
 Detailed Contents of Vol. V. (English 
 Idylls : it may be remarked that this classi- 
 fication of certain blank-verse narratives is 
 the Poet's own.) 
 
 I. "The Epic "(with reference only to "Morte 
 d'Arthur," transferred to " The Passing of 
 Arthur," in « Idylls of the King," Vol. XII.). 
 
 z. "Dora"(with note afterwards withdrawn, acknow- 
 ledging the source of the Idyll in one of Mary 
 Russell Mitford's pastorals, i.e., " Dora Cress- 
 well," in "Our Village"). 
 
 3. Audley Court. 
 
 4. Edwin Morris ; or, the Lake. 
 
 5. Walking to the Mail. 
 
 6. The Gardener's Daughter. 
 
 7. The Golden Year. 
 
 8. Godiva. 
 
 9. The Brook. 
 
 10. Sea-Dreams. 
 
 11. Enoch Arden. 
 iz. Aylmer's Field. 
 13. The Sisters. 
 
 Appendix (to Vol. V.). 
 The prose story of " Dora Cresswell," from " Our 
 Village." 
 
 Index of first lines of the Idylls, and of the Songs 
 introduced in Nos. 3, 7, 9, 10, and 13. 
 
78 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 Detailed Contents of Vol. VI. (Clas- 
 sical Poems.) 
 
 1. Antony to Cleopatra (from "Poems, by Two 
 
 Brothers," 1827). 
 
 2. Hero to Leander (from " Poems, Chiefly 
 
 Lyrical," 1830). 
 
 3. The Hesperides. ] 
 
 4. The Lotos-Eaters, with Choric Song. ^1832. ' 
 
 5. CEnone (Second Version). J 
 
 6. The Death of CEnone. 
 
 7. Ulysses. 
 
 8. Tithonus. 
 
 9. Lucretius. 
 
 10. To Virgil. 
 
 1 1 . Catullus : " Ave atque Vale." 
 
 12. Tiresias. 
 
 13. Demeter. 
 
 14. 15. Two Translations, in blank verse, from the 
 
 " Iliad " of Homer (with the original Greek 
 text). 
 Index of Fjrst Lines. 
 
 Detailed Contents of Vol. VII. 
 (Patriotic and Laureate Poems,) 
 
 1. National Song : " There is no land like Eng- 
 
 land" (from "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical," 
 1830). 
 
 2. " Love thou thy land, with love far brought " 
 
 (1842). 
 
OF TENNYSON. 79 
 
 3. '■' You ask me, why, though ill at ease " (1842). 
 
 4. To the Queen, 1 851. 
 
 'Poems contributed to the Examiner : " Hands 
 
 5- all Round " (with later version) ; " Britons, 
 
 to \ Guard Your Own"; "The Third of 
 
 February, 1852"; "How much I love this 
 
 Writer's Manly Style." 
 
 9. Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, 
 
 1852-1853. 
 
 1 0. " The Charge of the Light Brigade " (from the 
 
 separate 4to. fly-sheet edition, with prose note), 
 1854-1855. 
 
 11. Stanzas added to the National Anthem, on the 
 
 marriage of the Princess Royal, 1858. 
 ;z. "The War."— "There is a sound of thunder 
 afar " (better known as " Riflemen, form "), 
 May, 1859. 
 
 13. Dedication of the four original " Idylls of the 
 
 King" (as published in 1859), to the memory 
 of the Prince Consort, 1862. 
 
 14. Ode on the Opening of the International Exhibi- 
 
 tion, 1862. 
 
 15. A Welcome (to Alexandra), 1863. 
 
 16. Lines for the Duchess of Kent's Mausoleum, 1864. 
 
 17. Ode on the Opening of the Exhibition of 1872. 
 
 18. A Welcome to Alexandrovna, 1874. 
 
 19. Dedicatory Lines to Princess Alice. 
 
 20. The Defence of Lucknow. 
 
 21. " The Revenge " ; a Ballad of the Fleet. 
 
 22. The Charge of the Heavy Brigade. 
 
8o THE BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 23. The Fleet (from the Times). 
 
 24. Jubilee Ode, 1887. 
 
 25. On the Death of the Duke of Clarence and 
 
 Avondale. 
 Index of First Lines. 
 
 Detailed Contents of Vol. VIII. 
 (" Maud"; and "The Window.") 
 
 Index of First Lines to " Maud." 
 
 Appendix to " Maud." 
 
 1. Note on the Stanzas published in The Tribute, 1837. 
 
 2. Note on a suppressed passage in some early pfoof- 
 
 sheets oi " Maud." 
 
 3. Tennyson's "Maud" Vindicated : an Explanatory 
 
 Essay by Robert James Mann, M.D. London : 
 Jarrold and Sons, 1856. 
 " No one, with this essay before him, can in future 
 pretend to misunderstand my dramatic poem, ' Maud.' 
 Your commentary is as true as it is full." — (Extract 
 from a letter of Tennyson addressed to the author of the 
 above pamphlet.) 
 
 The Window. 
 
 Dedication of the privately-printed edition to Sir 
 Ivor Bertie Guest, 1867. 
 
 Prose Preface to the published edition, Dec, 1870. 
 
 Collation of the text of the privately-printed with 
 that of the published edition, and w^ith the en- 
 graved score of music by Arthur Sullivan. 
 
OF TENNYSON. 8i 
 
 Detailed Contents of Vols. IX. and X. 
 (Miscellaneous and Later Poems.) 
 Miscellaneous Poems : Vol. IX. 
 
 1. The Miller's Daughter. "> Second Version of 
 
 2. The Palace of Art. / 1842. 
 
 [The Second Version of " CEnone " appears with 
 the "Classical Poems"; and the Second Ver- 
 sion of " The Lady of Shalott," in " Idylls of 
 the King" (Vol. XI.), as an earlier treatment 
 of the story of Elaine and Lancelot.] 
 
 3- 
 
 St. Simeon Stylites. 
 
 H- 
 
 Locksley Hall. 
 
 4- 
 
 Edward Gray. 
 
 IS- 
 
 Locksley Hall, Sixty 
 
 5- 
 
 The Lord of Bur- 
 
 
 Years After. 
 
 
 leigh. 
 
 16. 
 
 The Vision of Sin. 
 
 6. 
 
 The Day Dream 
 
 17- 
 
 The Rivulet. 
 
 
 (including " The 
 
 18. 
 
 After reading a Life 
 
 
 Sleeping Beauty " 
 
 
 and Letters. 
 
 
 of 1830). 
 
 19- 
 
 The Poet's Song. 
 
 7- 
 
 Lady Clare (with 
 
 20. 
 
 The New Timon and 
 
 
 note from the edi- 
 
 
 the Poets. 
 
 
 tion of 1842). 
 
 21. 
 
 Afterthought (" Li- 
 
 8. 
 
 The Skipping-Rope. 
 
 
 terary Squabbles"). 
 
 9- 
 
 Love and Duty. 
 
 22. 
 
 The Daisy, written 
 
 10. 
 
 Will Waterproofs 
 
 
 at Edinburgh. 
 
 
 Lyrical Monologue. 
 
 23- 
 
 The Letters. 
 
 II. 
 
 Amphion. 
 
 24. 
 
 Will. 
 
 12. 
 
 St. Agnes. 
 
 25. 
 
 Akbar's Dream. 
 
 13- 
 
 The Talking Oak 
 
 26. 
 
 St. Telemachus. 
 
 
 (with the two 
 
 27. 
 
 The Grandmother. 
 
 
 omitted stanzas). 
 
 28. 
 
 The Sailor-Boy. 
 
 6 
 
82 
 
 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 29. The Voyage. 
 
 30. The Islet. 
 
 31. The Flower. 
 
 32. Requiescat. 
 
 33. In the Valley of 
 
 Cauteretz. 
 
 34. A Dedication (to the 
 
 " Enoch Arden " 
 volume, 1864). 
 
 35. On a Mourner. 
 
 36. The Captain : A 
 
 Legend of the 
 Navy. 
 
 37. On a Spiteful Letter. 
 
 38. Old and New Year, 
 
 1865-1866. 
 
 39. The Victim. 
 
 40. Wages. 
 
 41. The Higher Pan- 
 
 theism. 
 
 42. The Ringlet. 
 
 43. The Voice and the 
 
 Peak. 
 
 44. England and America 
 
 in 1772. 
 
 45. Rizpah. 
 
 Index of First Lines. 
 (With any other poem or 
 inadvertently omitted.) 
 
 46. In the Children's 
 
 Hospital. 
 
 47. Columbus. 
 
 48. Sir John Oldcastle. 
 
 49. The Battle of Brun- 
 
 anburg. 
 
 50. De Profundis. 
 
 5 1 . The Human Cry. 
 
 52. 53. Child Songs : 
 
 52. The City Child. 
 
 53. Minnie and Win- 
 
 nie. 
 
 54. Spring. 
 
 55. The Lover's Tale, as 
 
 re - written, pub- 
 lished with a Third 
 Part, and with a 
 Fourth Part, origi- 
 nally entitled "The 
 Golden Supper," 
 1 869- 1 879. 
 
 56. TheVoyageof Mael- 
 
 dune. 
 
 57. Despair. 
 
 58. Crossing the Bar, 
 
 1889. 
 
 poems, unintentionally or 
 
OF TENNYSON. 83 
 
 Detailed Contents of Vol. X. Sonnets, Poems 
 
 ADDRESSED TO FrIENDS, DiALECT PoEMS, ExPERI- 
 
 , ments, Nug^, and Fragments. 
 Sennets : 
 
 To John Mitchell Kemble (J. M. K.), and other 
 Sonnets from "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical," 1830. 
 
 M.S. Sonnet in the Dyce Copy of "Poems, Chiefly 
 Lyrical " (printed in the Second Edition of 
 " Tennysoniana," and in Notes and Queries'). 
 
 Three Sonnets from The Englishman's Magazine, from 
 the Yorkshire Literary Annual, and from Friend- 
 ship's Offering, 1831-1832. 
 
 Three Sonnets to a Coquette (from the Selections 
 of 1864-1865). 
 
 Two Early Sonnets from the Library Edition of 
 1872, viz., "Alexander" and "The Brides- 
 maid." 
 
 " Mine be the strength of spirit fierce and free." 
 
 Buonaparte, 
 
 Two Sonnets on Poland, and other Sonnets from the 
 "Poems" of 1832-1833. 
 
 Sonnet to Macready, 1850. 
 
 Sonnet to the Rev. W. H. Brookfield. 
 
 Prefatory Sonnet to the Nineteenth Century, 1877. 
 
 Sonnet. To Victor Hugo, 1877. 
 
 Montenegro : a Sonnet. 
 
 Showr-day at Battle Abbey (Sonnet prefixed to the 
 drama of "Harold," 1877). 
 
84 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 Poems addressed to friends : 
 
 To James Spedding (J. S.), 1832. 
 
 To Edward Lear (E. L.), on his "Travels in Greece," 
 
 1850. 
 To the Rev. F. D. Maurice, 1854-1855. 
 To Sir John Simeon ("In the Garden at Swainston"), 
 
 1873. 
 To General Sir Edward Hamley. 
 To Charles Tennyson Turner (" Memorial 
 
 Stanzas"), 1 879. 
 To Edward Fitzgerald, 1884. 
 To W. G. Palgrave, 1888. 
 To Mary Boyle. 
 
 To the Marquis of DufFerin and Ava. 
 To the Master of Balliol (Professor Jowett). 
 
 Dialect Poems : 
 
 The Northern Farmer (Old Style). ^ 
 The Northern Farmer (New Style). 
 The Northern Cobbler. 
 The Village Wife ; or. The Entail, 
 etc. 
 
 With Glossary 
 
 by the 
 
 Author. 
 
 Experiments in Metre : 
 
 Hexameters and Pentamenters. 
 Catullian Hendecasyllabics. 
 Milton (Alcaics). 
 Boadicea. 
 
 Four lines written especially for Jebb's " Primer of 
 Greek Literature." 
 
OF TENNYSON. 85 
 
 Nugte : 
 
 « Break, break, break." 
 
 " Come not, when I am dead." 
 
 " Here often, when a child, I lay reclined." 
 
 " Flower in the crannied wall." 
 
 To my grandson, Alfred Tennyson (1880). 
 
 Franklin. 
 
 To the Princess Frederica of Hanover. 
 
 Dante (written at the request of the Florentines). 
 
 Compromise. 
 
 Helen's Tower (written at the request of the 
 
 Marquis of Dufferin and Ava). 
 Lines in Fancy Fair Albums. 
 To W. G. Ward, and other short poems in the 
 
 " Demeter " volume, and " The Death of 
 
 ^none." 
 
 Fragments. 
 
 Unpublished lines quoted by Alford, 1830-31 (see 
 Memoir of Dean Alford) : " Tennyson says : — 
 
 " To search the secret is beyond our lore. 
 And man must wait till God doth furnish more." 
 
 The Eagle : A Fragment, 1842, 
 
 "What time I wasted youthful hours," 185 1, in 
 the metre of " The Two Voices," and perhaps 
 composed originally to form part of that poem. 
 
 " Move eastward, happy earth " (1842). 
 
 Unpublished lines in "Ros Rosarum " (1885). 
 
 Index of First Lines. 
 
86 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 Detailed Contents of Vols, XI. and XII. 
 The Round Table. 
 Idylls of the King : 
 
 (An Epic of King Arthur, in Twelve 
 Books). 
 
 " Flos regum Arthurus." — Joseph of Exeter. 
 
 Vol. XI. 
 
 Book I. 
 
 The Coming of Arthur (1869). 
 
 Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere (1842). 
 
 Book 2. 
 Balin and Balan (1884). 
 
 Book 3. 
 Gareth and Lynette (1872). 
 
 Book 4. 
 
 Geraint and Enid, 1857 (with appendix containing 
 the Prose Story from Lady Charlotte Guest's 
 translation of " The Mabinogion "). 
 
 Book 5. 
 Merlin and Vivien (1857). 
 
OF TENNYSON. 87 
 
 Book 6. 
 The Lady of Shalott (Second Version, 1842). 
 Lancelot and Elaine, 18 $9. 
 
 Vol. XII. 
 
 Book 7. 
 Sir Galahad, 1842. 
 The Holy Grail, i86g. 
 
 Book 8. 
 Pelleas and Ettarre, 1869. 
 
 Book 9. 
 The Last Tournament, 1 871. 
 
 Book 10. 
 Guinevere, 1859. 
 
 Book II, 
 
 The Passing of Arthur (including "Morte d' Arthur"), 
 1869. 
 
 Book 12, 
 
 To the Queen, 1872. 
 
 Index, to Vols. XI. and XII., of the Twelve Books 
 and of the Songs. 
 
88 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TENNYSON. 
 
 Detailed Contents of Vols. XIII., XIV. 
 and XV. (" Dramatic Works.") 
 
 Vols. XIII., XIV. 
 Harold.* Becket. Queen Mary. 
 
 Vol. XV. 
 The Cup ; The Falcon ; The Promise of May ; 
 
 The Foresters. 
 Index to the Songs. 
 
 * Without the Introductory Sonnet : 
 " Show Day at Battle Abbey." 
 (Already printed among the Sonnets.) 
 
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