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 proofsheets of "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 with the engraved score of music by Arthur Sullivan.