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untouched, and none having received more than a few verbal alterations); 2. Some dozen poems, from the volume of 1832, almost entirely rewritten,[1] together with six or seven new pieces,[2] written, with one exception, in 1833.
The second volume contained poems entirely new, with the exception of "The Sleeping Beauty," a portion of "The Day-Dream," originally published in the volume of 1830, and the poem of "St. Agnes," which, as we have already seen, was originally printed in 1837. We propose to examine the contents,
- ↑ "The Dream of Fair Women," considerably altered in this edition, was again retouched in the editions of 1845 and 1853.
- ↑ Two of these pieces, "Lady Clara Vere de Vere" and "The Blackbird," have received slight alterations in subsequent editions. In the former poem (st. 7) we had originally "The gardener Adam" instead of "The grand old gardener," and in "The Blackbird":
"I better brook the drawling stares,
Now thy flute-notes are changed to coarse—
Not hearing thee at all, or hoarse
As when a hawker hawks his wares."And there is a curious but unimportant alteration in another stanza of the same poem.
