Tennyson’s Poems New Textual Parallels R. H. WINNICK TENNYSON’S POEMS: NEW TEXTUAL PARALLELS Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels R. H. Winnick https://www.openbookpublishers.com Copyright © 2019 by R. H. Winnick This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work provided that attribution is made to the author (but not in any way which suggests that the author endorses you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: R. H. Winnick, Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels. 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All paper used by Open Book Publishers is SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative) and PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes ) Certified. For Christopher Ricks Contents Numbers and alphanumerics (such as ‘1A’) before poem titles are those assigned by Christopher Ricks in his 1987 edition of Tennyson’s complete poems (see Preface). An asterisk following a poem number indicates that the poem appears in both the selected and the complete Ricks edition; its absence, that the poem appears only in the latter. Preface 1 1A Three Translations of Horace 17 1 Translation of Claudian’s ‘Rape of Proserpine’ 18 2 The Devil and the Lady 24 3 Armageddon 30 4 The Coach of Death, A Fragment 35 5 Memory [Memory! dear enchanter!] 36 8 Remorse 37 9 The Dell of E— 37 10 Anthony and Cleopatra 39 16 ‘Did not thy roseate lips outvie’ 39 26 On Sublimity 39 27 Time: An Ode 41 30 The Walk at Midnight 41 45 ‘Oh! ye wild winds, that roar and rave’ 42 46 Babylon 42 47 Love [Almighty Love!] 43 48 Exhortation to the Greeks 44 50 ‘Come hither, canst thou tell me if this skull’ 44 51 The Dying Man to His Friend 45 54A ‘The musky air was mute’ 45 55 The Outcast 45 58A The Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Buonaparte 46 59 Playfellow Winds 48 61 Home 48 62 ‘Among some Nations Fate hath placed too far’ 48 63 To Poesy [O God, make this age great] 49 64 The Lark 49 67 Timbuctoo 49 73* Mariana 50 75 Madeline 50 78* Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind 51 79 The Burial of Love 53 83 Recollections of the Arabian Nights 53 84 Ode to Memory 53 87 Adeline 56 88* A Character 57 91 The Poet 58 95 Hero to Leander 60 99 The Grasshopper 60 101 Chorus, in an Unpublished Drama, Written Very Early 60 106 To a Lady Sleeping 61 107 Sonnet [Could I outwear my present state of woe] 62 108 Sonnet [Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon] 63 109 Sonnet [Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good] 63 110 Sonnet [The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain] 65 124 Amy 65 126 Memory [Ay me!] 65 127 Ode: O Bosky Brook 66 128 Perdidi Diem 68 130 Sense and Conscience 69 132 ‘In deep and solemn dreams’ 70 140 Lines on Cambridge of 1830 70 143 A Fragment [Where is the Giant of the Sun] 71 144 ‘O wake ere I grow jealous of sweet Sleep’ 71 145 ‘The constant spirit of the world exults’ 71 146 Sonnet [When that rank heat of evil’s tropic day] 72 151 Sonnet [There are three things which fill my heart with sighs] 72 153 The Lover’s Tale 73 155 ‘My life is full of weary days’ 75 158 ‘If I were loved, as I desire to be’ 75 159* The Lady of Shalott 75 160* Mariana in the South 77 161 Eleänore 78 162 The Miller’s Daughter 81 163* Fatima 81 164* Œnone 83 166* To — . With the Following Poem [The Palace of Art] 85 167* The Palace of Art 86 169 The Hesperides 88 170* The Lotos-Eaters 88 171 Rosalind 89 172 ‘My Rosalind, my Rosalind’ 89 173* A Dream of Fair Women 90 174 Song [Who can say] 91 175 Margaret 91 176 Kate 91 179 To — [As when with downcast eyes] 93 185 Sonnet [Alas! how weary are my human eyes] 94 190 ‘Pierced through with knotted thorns of barren pain’ 94 192 The Ruined Kiln 95 193 The Progress of Spring 95 194 ‘Hail Briton!’ 96 200 Early Spring [1833] 97 207 The Ante-Chamber 98 208 The Gardener’s Daughter; Or, The Pictures 98 209* The Two Voices 99 210* St Simeon Stylites 104 212 St Agnes’ Eve 104 214 ‘Hark! the dogs howl!’ 104 215 Whispers 105 216* On a Mourner 106 217* Ulysses 107 218* Tithon 109 219 Tiresias 110 220 Semele 112 223 Youth 112 225* The Epic [Morte d’Arthur] 112 227* ‘Oh! that ’twere possible’ 113 233 ‘Fair is that cottage in its place’ 114 238 ‘I loving Freedom for herself’ 114 240 The Blackbird 114 241* The Day-Dream 115 246 Lady Clara Vere de Vere 118 250 Sonnet [Ah, fade not yet from out the green arcades] 118 251 To Rosa 119 254 Three Sonnets to a Coquette 119 255 Sonnet [How thought you that this thing could captivate?] 119 257 The Voyage 119 259 The Flight 122 263 ‘The tenth of April! is it not?’ 123 265* A Farewell 123 267 Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue 123 270 Amphion 124 271* Locksley Hall 124 275* Edwin Morris or, The Lake 126 276* The Golden Year 127 276A ‘Wherefore, in these dark ages of the Press’ 128 277* The Vision of Sin 129 279 Love and Duty 132 285B The Wanderer 132 286* The Princess, A Medley 133 289 To — , After Reading a Life and Letters 145 290 The Losing of the Child 147 291 The Sailor Boy 147 296* In Memoriam A. H. H. 148 297 To the Vicar of Shiplake 185 299* To the Queen 185 300 ‘Little bosom not yet cold’ 186 301* To E. L., on His Travels in Greece 186 306 The Third of February, 1852 187 307 Hands All Round! [1852] 187 308 Suggested by Reading an Article in a Newspaper 187 310* Will 188 311* The Daisy 189 312* To the Rev. F. D. Maurice 189 313 The Brook 190 316* Maud, A Monodrama 192 317 The Letters 197 324* Tithonus 198 329 Ode Sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition 198 330* Enoch Arden 199 337 Aylmer’s Field 1793 202 339 A Dedication 205 353 The Higher Pantheism 205 355 Lucretius 205 363 To the Rev. W. H. Brookfield 206 367 Prefatory Sonnet to the ‘Nineteenth Century’ 207 377* Prefatory Poem to My Brother’s Sonnets 207 383 De Profundis 208 386 Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham 208 390 Prologue to General Hamley [The Charge of the 209 Heavy Brigade] 392 Epilogue [The Charge of the Heavy Brigade] 209 394* To Virgil 209 395 The Throstle 210 398* To E. FitzGerald 210 399 Poets and their Bibliographies 210 400* The Dead Prophet 210 407 Freedom 211 410 The Fleet 211 413 Vastness 211 415 The Ancient Sage 212 417* Locksley Hall Sixty Years After 212 420 Demeter and Persephone 212 424 Happy, The Leper’s Bride 214 425* To Mary Boyle 214 426* Far — Far — Away 215 427* To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava 215 431 Merlin and the Gleam 216 441 The Death of Œnone 217 443 St Telemachus 217 454 Kapiolani 218 462* Crossing the Bar 218 Idylls of the King 464* The Coming of Arthur 218 465* Gareth and Lynette 219 466* The Marriage of Geraint 220 467* Geraint and Enid 221 468* Balin and Balan 221 469* Merlin and Vivien 222 470* Lancelot and Elaine 222 471* The Holy Grail 223 472* Pelleas and Ettarre 223 473* The Last Tournament 224 474* Guinevere 226 475* The Passing of Arthur 226 Alphabetical Index of Tennyson Poems Discussed 227 Index of Antecedent Writers and Works Discussed 233 Preface The most recent major edition of Tennyson’s complete poems, the three- volume second (1987) edited by Christopher Ricks,1 cites more than twelve hundred instances in which phrases and short passages of as few as two or three and as many as several words therein are similar or identical to those occurring in prior works by other hands.2 Thanks to the proliferation of digitized texts and the related development of powerful search tools over the three decades since that edition was produced, it has become possible to search for such textual parallels far more widely and effectively than ever before and to find, in Tennyson’s case, hundreds more.