meant for the public eye, many of which I have burnt according to his instructions. Among those that I have collected here, the most interesting to me are my father's unpublished poems, letters, and notes on his own life and work left me for publication after his death, Arthur Hallam's letters, Edward Fitzgerald's private MS notes1 (some of which he gave me, and some of which have been lent to me by Mr Aldis Wright), and the journal of our home life. This last is a simple record of daily something-nothings. If there appear, in the Reminiscences kindly contributed by his different friends, to be any discrepancies, let it be remembered that the many-sided man has sympathy with many and various minds, and that the poet may be like the magnetic needle, which, though it can be moved from without, yet in itself remains true to the magnetic pole. According to my father's wish, throughout the memoir my hand will be as seldom seen as may be, and this accounts for the occasionally fragmentary character of my work. The anecdotes and sayings here related have been mostly taken down as soon as spoken, and are hence, I trust, not marred or mended by memory, which, judging from some anecdotes of him recently published, is wont to be a register not wholly accurate. "Fingunt simul creduntque." Such reviews as I have quoted are chiefly those which have met with my father's approbation as explanatory commentaries. For my own part, I have generally refrained from attempting to pronounce judgment either on his poems or on his personal qualities and characteristics; although more than any living man I 1 Generally signed E. F. G. throughout this work. have had reason to appreciate his splendid truth and trustfulness, his varied creative imagination, and love of beauty, his rich humour, his strength of purpose, the largeness of his nature, and the wide range of his genius. If I may venture to speak of his special influence over the world, my conviction is, that its main and enduring factors are his power of expression, the perfection of his workmanship, his strong common sense, the high purport of his life and work, his humility, and his open-hearted and helpful sympathy "Fortezza, ed umilitade, e largo core." CHRONOLOGY OF THE BOOKS OF POEMS. 1827.-POEMS BY TWO BROTHERS. London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, Stationers'-Hall-Court; and J. and J. Jackson. Louth 1827. Published in two sizes. 1829.-TIMBUCTOO. A Poem which obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, 1829. By A. Tennyson, of Trinity College. 8vo. 1830.-POEMS, CHIEFLY LYRICAL. By Alfred Tennyson. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, Cornhill, 1830. 12mo. 1832.-POEMS, BY ALFRED TENNYSON. London: Edward Moxon, 64 New Bond Street (dated 1833). 12mo. 1833. THE LOVER'S TALE, privately printed in London. 1847. THE PRINCESS. A Medley. By Alfred Tennyson. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1847. 12mo. 1848. THE SAME. Second edition. London: 1848 (with addition of dedication to Henry Lushington). 1848.-POEMS, BY ALFRED TENNYSON. Fifth edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1848. 12mo. 1850.-IN MEMORIAM. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1850. 12mo. (Appointed Poet-laureate Nov. 19.) CHRONOLOGY OF THE BOOKS OF POEMS. xix 1850. THE PRINCESS. Third edition (altered, with songs added). London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1850. 12mo. 1850.-POEMS, BY ALFRED TENNYSON. Sixth edition. London: 1850. 12mo. (After reading a Life and Letters included.) 1851.-POEMS, BY ALFRED TENNYSON. Seventh edition. London: 1851. 12mo. (Come not when I am dead, Edwin Morris, The Eagle, and the dedication To the Queen included.) 1851. THE PRINCESS. Fourth edition. London 1851. 12mo. This edition first has the passages describing the Prince's weird seizures. 1851.-IN MEMORIAM. Fourth edition. London 1851. 12m0. (O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me? added.) 1852.-ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. By Alfred Tennyson, Poet-laureate. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1852. 8vo. 1853-POEMS, BY ALFRED TENNYSON. Eighth edition. London: 1853. I 2mo. (With an alteration in the Dream of Fair Women, and lines To E. L. added.) 1853. THE PRINCESS. Fifth edition (the final text). London : 1853. 12mo. 1854. CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, published in the Examiner, Dec. 9th, 1854, then printed for the soldiers before Sebastopol, August, 1855. 1855.-MAUD, AND OTHER POEMS. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet-laureate. London: Edward Moxon, 1855. 12mo. 1857.-POEMS BY ALFRED TENNYSON. Illustrations by D. G. Rossetti, J. E. Millais, and others. Edward Moxon. Royal 8vo. 1859.-IDYLLS OF THE KING. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet-laureate. London: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street, 1859. 12mo. 1861. THE SAILOR BOY. London: Emily Faithfull & Co., Victoria Press. 1862. IDYLLS OF THE KING. A new edition. London: 1862. 12mo. (with Dedication to the Prince Consort). 1862.-ODE: MAY THE FIRST, 1862, FOR THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. London: Edward (published also in Fraser, June, 1862). OPENING OF THE 1863.-WELCOME TO ALEXANDRA. 4 pages. London: Edward Moxon & Co. 1864. ENOCH ARDEN, ETC. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet- This was published in Moxon's Miniature Poets, and contains six new THE VICTIM. Printed by Sir Ivor Guest (Lord Wimborne), 1867. THE WINDOW. S set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan. 1869.-THE HOLY GRAIL, AND OTHER POEMS. By Alfred lishers, 56 Ludgate Hill, 1869. 12mo. 1870. THE WINDOW, OR THE SONG OF THE WRENS. With music 1871.-MINIATURE EDITION OF COMPLETE WORKS. London : 1871. THE LAST TOURNAMENT. Contemporary Review, December. 12mo. 1872. THE LIBRARY EDITION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS. In 1874.-A WELCOME TO THE King & Co. - DUCHESS OF EDINBURGH. H. S. 1874. THE CABINET EDITION (H. S. King & Co.) contained : 1875.-QUEEN MARY. A Drama, by Alfred Tennyson. London: 1876. QUEEN MARY, produced at the Lyceum Theatre. 1876.-HAROLD. A Drama, by Alfred Tennyson. London: 12mo. By Alfred Tennyson. C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1 Paternoster Square, 1879. 12mo. 1879. THE FALCON, produced at the St. James' Theatre. London: |