The Bibliography of Tennyson (1896)/Appendix

by Richard Herne Shepherd

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.

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PROPOSED CONTENTS OF THE FIFTEEN VOLUMES.

Vol. I. Juvenilia, 1827-1832.
Vol. II. Poems printed or written prior to the death of Arthur Hallam, 1830-1833.
Vol. III. In Memoriam (with various readings).
Vol. IV. The Princess (with various readings).
Vol. V. English Idylls (with various readings).
Vol. VI. Classical Poems (with various readings).
Vol. VII. 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 of 1832-1833; Poems, Narrative, Elegiac and Lyrical (not included under the above headings); Ballads; Poems addressed to friends; Sonnets; Experiments; Dialect Poems; "Nugæ"; and Fragments (with various readings).
Vols. XI., XII. Idylls of the King (with various readings).
Vols. XIII., 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."^[1]
4. The suppressed and cancelled Poems from "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical," 1830; all those not reinstated or restored in the latest collected Editions.^[2]
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.^[2] Index of first lines.

Appendix.

Notice of "Timbuctoo" in the Athenæum of 1829.

Detailed Contents of Vol. II. (Poems printed or written prior to the death of Arthur Hallam. 1830-1833.)

1. "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical," those retained in the edition of 1842, or restored and reinstated in later collected editions of Tennyson's Works.
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," "Œnone," "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 probably 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 Blackwood's Magazine.
• Extract from the article in the Quarterly Review, 1833.

Volume III.

"In Memoriam."

Appendix.

Index of First Lines.

Verbal Index of 1862 (altered and enlarged to include the new thirty-third Section subsequently 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 (1847-1853), with the various readings, 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.

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Index of First Lines to the Prologue, Interlude and Epilogue; to the Seven Books and to the six Songs.

Detailed Contents of Vol. V. (English Idylls: it may be remarked that this classification of certain blank-verse narratives is the Poet's own.)

1. "The Epic" (with reference only to "Morte d'Arthur," transferred to "The Passing of Arthur," in "Idylls of the King," Vol. XII.).

2. "Dora"(with note afterwards withdrawn, acknowledging the source of the Idyll in one of Mary Russell Mitford's pastorals, i.e., "Dora Cresswell," 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.

II. Enoch Arden.

12. Aylmer's Field.

13. The Sisters.

Appendix (to Vol. V.).

The prose story of "Dora Cresswell," from "Our Village."

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Index of first lines of the Idylls, and of the Songs introduced in Nos. 3, 7, 9, 10, and 13.

Detailed Contents of Vol. VI. (Classical 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.

5. Œnone (Second Version).

6. The Death of Œnone.

7. Ulysses.

8. Tithonus.

9. Lucretius.

10. To Virgil.

11. 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 First Lines.

Detailed Contents of Vol. VII. (Patriotic and Laureate Poems.)

1. National Song: "There is no land like England" (from Poems, Chiefly Lyrical," 1830).

"Love thou thy land, with love far brought" (1842).

3. "You ask me, why, though ill at ease" (1842).

4. To the Queen, 1851.

5. to 8. Poems contributed to the Examiner: "Hands all Round" (with later version); "Britons, 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.

10. "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.

12. "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 Exhibition, 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.

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.")

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Index of First Lines to "Maud."

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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.)

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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.

Detailed Contents of Vols. IX. and X. (Miscellaneous and Later Poems.)

Miscellaneous Poems: Vol. IX.
1.	The Miller's Daughter.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Second Version of 1842.
2.	The Palace of Art.
	[The Second Version of "Œnone" appears with the "Classical Poems"; and the Second Version 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.
4.	Edward Gray.
5.	The Lord of Burleigh.
6.	The Day Dream (including "The Sleeping Beauty" of 1830).
7.	Lady Clare (with note from the edition of 1842).
8.	The Skipping-Rope.
9.	Love and Duty.
10.	Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue.
11.	Amphion.
12.	St. Agnes.
13.	The Talking Oak (with the two omitted stanzas).
14.	Locksley Hall.
15.	Locksley Hall, Sixty Years After.
16.	The Vision of Sin.
17.	The Rivulet.
18.	After reading a Life and Letters.
19.	The Poet's Song.
20.	The New Timon and the Poets.
21.	Afterthought ("Literary Squabbles").
22.	The Daisy, written at Edinburgh.
23.	The Letters.
24.	Will.
25.	Akbar's Dream.
26.	St. Telemachus.
27.	The Grandmother.
28.	The Sailor-Boy.
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 Pantheism.
42.	The Ringlet.
43.	The Voice and the Peak.
44.	England and America in 1772.
45.	Rizpah.
46.	In the Children's Hospital.
47.	Columbus.
48.	Sir John Oldcastle.
49.	The Battle of Brunanburg.
50.	De Profundis.
51.	The Human Cry.
52,	53. Child Songs:
	52. The City Child.
	53. Minnie and Winnie.
54.	Spring.
55.	The Lover's Tale, as re-written, published with a Third Part, and with a Fourth Part, originally entitled "The Golden Supper," 1869-1879.
56.	The Voyage of Maeldune.
57.	Despair.
58.	Crossing the Bar, 1889.
	Index of First Lines.
(With any other poem or poems, unintentionally or inadvertently omitted.)

Detailed Contents of Vol. X. Sonnets, Poems addressed to Friends, Dialect Poems, Experiments, Nugæ, and Fragments.

Sonnets:

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 Friendship'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 Bridesmaid."

"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.

Show-day at Battle Abbey (Sonnet prefixed to the drama of "Harold," 1877).

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"), 1879.

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).	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	With Glossary by the Author.
The Northern Farmer (New Style).
The Northern Cobbler.
The Village Wife; or, The Entail, etc.

Experiments in Metre:

Hexameters and Pentamenters.

Catullian Hendecasyllabics.

Milton (Alcaics).

Boadicea.

Four lines written especially for Jebb's "Primer of Greek Literature."

Nugæ:

"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 Ænone."

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," 1851, 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.

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).

Book 6.

The Lady of Shalott (Second Version, 1842).

Lancelot and Elaine, 1859.

Vol. XII.

Book 7.

Sir Galahad, 1842.

The Holy Grail, 1869.

Book 8.

Pelleas and Ettarre, 1869.

Book 9.

The Last Tournament, 1871.

Book 10.

Guinevere, 1859.

Book 11.

The Passing of Arthur (including "Morte d'Arthur"), 1869.

Book 12.

To the Queen, 1872.

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Index, to Vols. XI. and XII., of the Twelve Books and of the Songs.

Detailed Contents of Vols. XIII., XIV. and XV. ("Dramatic Works.")

Vols. XIII., XIV.

Harold.^[3] Becket. Queen Mary.

Vol. XV.

The Cup; The Falcon; The Promise of May; The Foresters.

Index to the Songs.

 

The End.

 

BILLING AND SONS, PRINTERS, GUILDFORD.

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1. [The couplet which forms a motto to this Prize Poem:
   "Deep in that lion-haunted inland lies A mystic City, goal of high Emprize,"
   
   
   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.]
2. (Except a few in Nos. 1, 4 and 6, included under other headings.)
3. Without the Introductory Sonnet:
   "Show Day at Battle Abbey."
   (Already printed among the Sonnets.)