Tennyson’s Text

Danny Karlin

  • The Poems of Tennyson edited by Christopher Ricks
    Longman, 662 pp, £40.00, May 1987, ISBN 0 582 49239 4
  • Tennyson’s ‘Maud’: A Definitive Edition edited by Susan Shatto
    Athlone, 296 pp, £28.00, August 1986, ISBN 0 485 11294 9
  • The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Vol.2: 1851-1870 edited by Cecil Lang and Edgar Shannon
    Oxford, 585 pp, £40.00, May 1987, ISBN 0 19 812691 3
  • The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse edited by Christopher Ricks
    Oxford, 654 pp, £15.95, June 1987, ISBN 0 19 214154 6

Writing in 1842 to his friend Alfred Domett, who had emigrated to New Zealand, Robert Browning enclosed ‘Tennyson’s new vol. and, alas, the old with it – that is what he calls old’. Browning was referring to the two-volume Poems of 1842, whose first volume consisted of heavily revised versions of poems published in 1830 and 1832. ‘You will see, and groan!’ Browning went on.

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