new edition of the volume without any hesitation, The best (or perhaps the only) descriptions of "Poems by Two Brothers" are in a paper contributed by the Hon. Leicester Warren to the Fortnightly Review, in October, 1865; and in a paper "On the Early Poems of Alfred and Charles Tennyson," published in Notes and Queries early in 1866, and which afterwards formed substantially the two opening chapters of "Tennysoniana."
A diminutive volume of "Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces," by Charles Tennyson (the elder of the two brothers), was issued at Cambridge, with his name, in 1830,[1] and will enable a careful student to distinguish his work to some extent, in the earlier anonymous volume, from that of his more famous younger brother. Charles Tennyson afterwards assumed the name of Turner on inheriting some property, entered the Church, and became Vicar of Grasby in Lincolnshire. With the exception of some original lines which appeared in The Tribute in 1837, he published no more verse apparently for thirty-four
- ↑ A copy of this little volume, sent to Coleridge, elicited from the older and more famous poet a series of autograph marginalia, which were deciphered and published in 1880 in the collection of Charles Tennyson's Poems issued by his family, and in Mr. David M. Main's "Treasury of English Sonnets," in which valuable anthology some of Charles Tennyson's finest Sonnets are included.
