in the earlier work with some certainty to their respective authors. Charles Tennyson became vicar of Grasby, in Lincolnshire, in 1835, about which time, in consequence of his succeeding, by the death of his grandfather, to property which had come into the family through his grandmother, he assumed the name of Turner, under which he published in 1864 a small volume of sonnets dedicated to the Poet Laureate.
Perhaps the most interesting criticism on the "Poems, chiefly Lyrical," was that contributed by Arthur Hallam, in August, 1831, to a short-lived periodical entitled "The Englishman's Magazine." Under the thin disguise of the editorial "we," it is easy to recognize the warmth and enthusiasm of a dear friend. The article is entitled, "On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry, and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson."[1] The latter portion of it, devoted to an analysis and criticism of some of the principal pieces, has unfortunately not been reprinted in Hallam's Remains.[2]
