Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 1809-1892 / 2008-07-22 00:00:00

EBOOK EARLY POEMS OF TENNYSON ***


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THE EARLY POEMS
OF
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

EDITED WITH A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION. COMMENTARIES AND NOTES,
TOGETHER WITH THE VARIOUS READINGS,
A TRANSCRIPT OF THE POEMS TEMPORARILY AND FINALLY SUPPRESSED
AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY

BY
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS


PREFACE
A Critical edition of Tennyson's poems has long been an acknowledged
want. He has taken his place among the English Classics, and as a
Classic he is, and will be, studied, seriously and minutely, by many
thousands of his countrymen, both in the present generation as well as
in future ages. As in the works of his more illustrious brethren, so in
his trifles will become subjects of curious interest, and assume an
importance of which we have no conception now. Here he will engage the
attention of the antiquary, there of the social historian. Long after
his politics, his ethics, his theology have ceased to be immediately
influential, they will be of immense historical significance. A
consummate artist and a consummate master of our language, the process
by which he achieved results so memorable can never fail to be of
interest, and of absorbing interest, to critical students.
I must, I fear, claim the indulgence due to one who attempts, for the
first time, a critical edition of a text so perplexingly voluminous in
variants as Tennyson's.
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