the suppressed poems, and is notable as having called forth the lines, "To Christopher North," printed a few months afterwards in Alfred Tennyson's second volume.
Here is the proper place for mentioning some half-dozen pieces contributed about this time to various miscellanies by Alfred Tennyson, and for some unaccountable reason not reprinted in his second volume, to which I shall come presently. First, there are three poems printed in an annual entitled "The Gem" for 1831.[1] The first of these is entitled "No More":
Oh strange No More!"
in which may, I think, be traced the germ of Violet's "mournful song" in "The Princess," with the refrain:
The second piece is entitled "Anacreontics." It will
- ↑ "The Literary Gazette," which reviewed this little book in November, 1830, could find nothing better to say of Mr. Tennyson's contributions than that they were 'silly sooth.'"
a narcotic dose administered to him by a crazy charlatan in the 'Westminster,' and after that he may sleep in safety with a pan of charcoal."—Blackwood's Magazine (May, 1832).
