APPENDIX (A).
THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TENNYSON.
1827.
I. Poems, by Two Brothers. "Hæc nos novimus 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 annuls 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."
1830.
III. Poems, chiefly Lyrical. By Alfred Tennyson. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, Cornhill. 8vo, pp. 154, and leaf of errata, (No table of contents.)
1831.
IV. "No More."
"Anacreontics,"
"A Fragment."
Printed in "The Gem, a Literary Annual." London: W. Marshall, 1, Holborn Bars, MDCCCXXXI., pp. 87, 131, 242-243.
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.
1832.
VI. Sonnet—"There are three things which fill my heart with sighs."
Printed in the "Yorkshire Literary Annual" for 1832, edited by C. F. Edgar (London: Longman and Co.), p. 127. (See the "Athenæum," May 4, 1867, p. 592.)
VII. Sonnet—"Me my own Fate to lasting sorrow doometh."
Printed in "Friendship's Offering," a Literary Album, &c., for 1832. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., p. 367.
VIII. Poems by Alfred Tennyson. London: Edward Moxon, 64, New Bond-street, MDCCCXXXIII., pp. 163, leaf of contents, title, and half-title.
Published in the winter of 1832.
1833.
IX. The Lover's Tale. By Alfred Tennyson. London: Edward Moxon, 64, New Bond-street, MDCCCXXXIII., pp. 60.
1837.
X. "St. Agnes." Printed in "The Keepsake," for 1837, edited by Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley. London: Longman and Co., p. 247.
XI. Stanzas—"Oh! that 'twere possible."
Printed in "The Tribute: a Collection of Miscellaneous Unpublished Poems, by Various Authors," edited by Lord Northampton. London: John Murray, 1837, pp. 244-250.
1842-1846.
XII. Poems by Alfred Tennyson. In two volumes. London: Edward Moxon, Dover-street, MDCCCXLII., pp. vii. 233, vii. 231.
XIII. Second Edition. 2 vols., 1843, pp. vii. 233, vii. 231. (Alterations in "The Blackbird," "The Day Dream," "The Two Voices," and "Walking to the Mail.")
XIV. Third Edition. 2 vols., 1845, pp. vii. 233, vii, 231. (Note in second volume relative to the "Idyl of Dora," and the "Ballad of Lady Clare" removed.)
XV. Fourth Edition. 2 vols., 1846, pp. vii. 232, vii. 235.
The last edition in two volumes.
(The "Golden Year" was first printed in this edition.)
1846.
XVI. "The New Timon and the Poets."
"Afterthought,"
"Punch," February 28, and March 7, 1846 (vol. x. pp. 103, 106).
1847-1848.
XVII. The Princess: a Medley. By Alfred Tennyson. London: Edward Moxon, Dover-street, MDCCCXLVII., pp. 164.
XVIII. Second Edition, 1848. With a Dedication to Henry Lushington, pp. 164.
*** With the exception of some half-dozen slight verbal alterations, the Second Edition is substantially the same as the First.
1848.
XIX. Poems by Alfred Tennyson. Fifth Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover-street, 1848, pp. viii. 372. The first one-volume edition.
1849.
XX. To ———. "You might have won the Poet's name." "Examiner," March 24, 1849.
1850.
XXI. In Memoriam. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pp. vii. 210.
*** Second and Third Editions, unaltered (except by the correction of two literal misprints) in the same year.
XXII. Poems. Sixth Edition, 1850, pp. 374.
(The last edition containing "The Skipping Rope." The lines To ———. "You might have won the Poet's name" (see No. xx.) were first included in this edition.)
XXIII. The Princess: a Medley. By Alfred Tennyson. Third Edition, 1850, pp. 177.
*** The Poem entirely re-written from beginning to end, and the Songs added for the first time.
XXIV. Lines—"Here often, when a child, I lay reclined." Printed in "The Manchester Athenæum Album," 1850.
1851.
XXV. Stanzas—"What time I wasted youthful hours."
Printed in "The Keepsake," edited by Miss Power. London: David Bogue, 1851, p. 22. The lines "Come not when I am dead" also first appeared in this volume.
XXVI. Sonnet to W. C. Macready.
Printed in "The Household Narrative of Current Events," February-March, 1851, p. 71; in "The People's and Howitt's Journal," N. S., Part XXI. April, 1851, and in most of the newspapers.
XXVIII. Poems: Seventh Edition, 1851, pp. 375.
The first "Laureate" edition. Four new poems, viz. "To the Queen," "Edwin Morris, or the Lake," "Come not when I am dead," and "The Eagle," added in this edition.
XXVIII. The Princess: a Medley. Fourth Edition, 1851, pp. 182.
All the passages relating to the Prince's weird seizures added. The fourth Song altered, and the second stanza of the first Song omitted (but restored in later editions).
XXIX. In Memoriam. Fourth Edition, 1851.
(In this Edition was added the section which now stands as LIX., "O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me?")
1852.
XXX. "Britons, guard your own." "Examiner," January 31, 1852.
"The Third of February, 1852."
"Hands all Round."
"Examiner," February 7, 1852.
1852-1853.
XXXI. Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. 8vo, pp. 16.
Second Edition, considerably altered, 1853.
1853.
XXXII. Poems. Eighth Edition, pp. 379.
(The "Sea-Fairies" of 1830 restored. Final alterations in "A Dream of Fair Women." The lines "To E. L., on his Travels in Greece," added. The lines "To the Queen" considerably altered.)
XXXIII. The Princess: a Medley. Fifth Edition, pp. 183.
(The passage from the "gallant glorious chronicle" added in the Prologue.)
1854-1855.
XXXIV. The Charge of the Light Brigade.
First printed in the "Examiner," Saturday, December 9, 1854.
A thousand copies printed on a quarto sheet of four pages, August, 1855, with a prose note by the author, for distribution among the soldiers before Sebastopol.
1855-1856.
XXXV. Maud and other Poems. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, pp. 154.
XXXVI. New Edition, 1856, considerably enlarged, pp. 164.
1857.
XXXVII. Enid and Nimue; or, The True and the False, pp. 139.
*** Never published, but a few copies are said to be still extant in private hands.
1858.
XXXVIII. Two Stanzas added to the National Anthem on the Marriage of the Princess Royal, January 28, 1858.
Printed in all the newspapers on the following day.
1859.
XXXIX. "The War," "There is a sound of thunder afar."
*** Printed in the "Times," May 9, 1859. Signed T.
XL. Idylls of the King. London: Moxon, pp. 261.
XLI. The Grandmother's Apology. With an Illustration by J. E. Millais.
Printed in "Once a Week," No. 3, July 16, 1859.
1860.
XLII. Sea Dreams: an Idyl.
Printed in "Macmillan's Magazine," January, 1860.
XLITI. Tithonus. ("Cornhill Magazine," February, 1860.)
1861.
XLIV. The Sailor-Boy.
(Printed in the "Victoria Regia," published by Emily Faithfull, Christmas, 1861.)
1862.
XLV. Idylls of the King.
New Edition, 1862. With a Dedication to the Memory of the late Prince Consort.
XLVI. Ode: May the First, 1862.
(Commonly called the "Exhibition Ode." Printed incorrectly in all the newspapers. A correct copy appeared in "Fraser's Magazine," June, 1862.)
1863.
XLVII. A Welcome. London, Edward Moxon and Co., pp. 4.
XLVIII. Attempts at Classic Metres in Quantity.
Printed in the "Cornhill Magazine," December, 1863.
1864.
XLIX. Epitaph on the late Duchess of Kent.
Printed in "The Court Journal," March 19, 1864.
L. Enoch Arden, &c. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, pp. 178.
1865.
LI. A Selection from the Works of Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, square 12mo.
Contains six new poems: "The Captain," "On a Mourner," "Three Sonnets to a Coquette," "Home they brought him slain with spears," and several new readings of previously published pieces.
1867.
LII. The Window; or, The Loves of the Wrens. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, Canford Manor =, Ꚛ, ‡, 7, MDCCCLXVII.
*** Printed at the private press of Sir Ivor Bertie Guest, Bart., of Canford Manor, near Wimborne, Dorset, son of Lady Charlotte Guest, editor of "The Mabinogion." There is a dedication in the following words: "These little songs, whose almost sole merit—at least till they are wedded to music—is that they are so excellently printed, I dedicate to the printer." The text presents considerable variations from that afterwards published.
1868.
LIII. The Victim: "Good Words," January, 1868.
LIV. On a Spiteful Letter: "Once a Week," January, 1868.
LV. Wages: "Macmillan's Magazine," February, 1868.
LVI. 1865-1866. "Good Words:" March, 1868.
LVI. Lucretius: "Macmillan's Magazine," May, 1868.
1869.
LVIII. The Holy Grail, and other Poems, pp. 222 (Strahan & Co.).
*** This volume includes the pieces numbered 53, 55, and 57.
1874.
LIX. A Welcome to Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh.
Printed in the "Times" and separately as a fly-sheet.
1875.
LX. Queen Mary. A Drama. By Alfred Tennyson. Henry S. King & Co. London, 1875, pp. viii. 278.
1877.
LXI. Harold, A Drama. By Alfred Tennyson. Henry S. King & Co. London, 1877, pp. viii. 161.
LXII. Sonnet on the death of William Henry Brookfield.
Printed in Lord Lyttelton's Memoir prefixed to Brookfield's "Sermons."
LXIII. Lines on Sir John Franklin in Westminster Abbey.
1877-1878.
LXIV. Contributions to the "Nineteenth Century:"—
Introductory Sonnet. March, 1877.
Montenegro. A Sonnet.
Sonnet—To Victor Hugo, June, 1877.
Achilles over the Trench, from the 18th Iliad. August, 1877.
Sir Richard Grenville. A Ballad of the Fleet. March, 1878.
COLLECTED EDITIONS OF TENNYSON'S WORKS.
1. Pocket Volume Edition, lately re-issued from the stereotype plates, in shilling volumes.
Contained the section now numbered xxxix. of "In Memoriam" ("Old Warder of these buried bones"), for the first time.
2. Library Edition. In Six Volumes. Strahan & Co. 1872-1873.
*** In the first volume of this edition several "Juvenilia" were restored to their places; and two early sonnets, "Alexander" and "The Bridesmaid," apparently published for the first time. In the third volume, the Examiner Poem, entitled "The Third of February, 1852," was first acknowledged and included; and also the second "Punch" poem, under the title of "Literary Squabbles." Some passages were added in "The Idylls of the King," and the exordium "To the Queen" printed for the first time.
3. Cabinet Edition. H. S. King & Co. 1874.
In the second volume, the stanzas entitled "England and America in 1782" were first included. In the fourth volume, the poem in memory of the late Sir John Simeon, entitled "In the Garden at Swainston," and "The Voice and the Peak," first appeared. In this edition also a new passage of nearly 150 lines was first introduced into "Merlin and Vivien" in the "Idylls of the King," immediately after the opening paragraph.
4. Author's Edition. H. S. King & Co. 1875-1877.
In this Edition the poem of "Maud" is first entitled "Maud: a Monodrama."