Obrázky stránek
PDF
ePub

66

66

66

years ago, and really finds great pleasure in the place; they stayed here and at Cauterets. Enone,”

he said, was written on the inspiration of the Pyre

nees, which stood for Ida.

"Tennyson and

"September 6.

have walked on to Caute

"rets, and I and the family follow in a calèche at

❝ two.

66

66

"Cauterets, September 7.

To-day is heavy brouillard down to the feet,

or at any rate ankles, of the hills, and little to be "done. I have been out for a walk with A. T. to a "sort of island between two waterfalls, with pines on "it, of which he retained a recollection from his visit of thirty-one years ago, and which, moreover, furnished 66 a simile to The Princess.' He is very fond of this "place, evidently." 1

[ocr errors]

During his visit to England, while staying in the Isle of Wight, Garibaldi paid a visit to Tennyson. This ever-memorable meeting took place on the afternoon of

269.

"Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough," vol. i. pp. 264

Friday, 8th April, 1864.1

Garibaldi stayed an hour

and a half, and, at the request of the poet's wife, he planted a Wellingtonia Gigantea in the grounds.

There is an engraving representing Garibaldi's arrival ("Meeting of Garibaldi and Tennyson at Farringford House") in the "Illustrated London News," vol. xliv. (April, 1864), p. 381.

66

APPENDIX (A).

THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TENNYSON.

1827.

I. POEMS, BY TWO BROTHERS. "Hæc nos novi

mus esse nihil.”—MARTIAL. London: printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, Stationers'-hall-court; and J. and J. Jackson, Louth, MDCCCXXVII., pp. xii. 228. Published in two sizes, 8vo and 12mo.

1829.

II. TIMBUCTOO: a Poem which obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, by A. Tennyson, of Trinity College.

Printed in the "Cambridge Chronicle," of July 10, 1829, and in the "Prolusiones Academicæ præmiis annuis dignatæ et in curiâ Cantabrigiensi recitatæ

comitiis maximis, A.D. M.DCCC.XXIX. Cantabrigiæ: typis academicis excudit Joannes Smith,

pp. 13." Reprinted several times in the successive collections of "Cambridge Prize Poems." In these reprints "ravished sense," towards the end of the poem, is wrongly printed "lavished sense."

son.

1830.

III. POEMS, CHIEFLY LYRICAL. By Alfred TennyLondon Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, Cornhill. 8vo, pp. 154, and leaf of errata. (No table of contents.)

1831.

IV. "No More."

66 Anacreontics."

"A Fragment."

Printed in "The Gem, a Literary Annual." London: W. Marshall, 1, Holborn Bars, MDCCCXXXI., pp. 87, 131, 242-243.

66

V. SONNET " Check every outflash, every ruder sally."

Printed in the "Englishman's Magazine" (London: Edward Moxon, 64, New Bond-street), August 1831. Reprinted in "Friendship's Offering," 1833, p. 29.

« PředchozíPokračovat »