Richard Herne Shepherd

“ His zeal for literature as literature was such that every fragment of printed matter became precious in his eyes and worthy of preservation, and if the author of the fragment or the author's friends chanced to take other views—tant pis. ”

“ The six intercalary songs, and the lines of blank verse, forming a sequel to the Prologue, which follow Lilia's Song, were added for the first time.
Poems by Alfred Tennyson. Sixth Edition. In one volume, green cloth. London: Edward Moxon, 1850. With the addition of the Examiner poem of 1849, "After reading a Life and Letters."
This is the last edition including the poem of "The Skipping-Rope," omitted in all subsequent editions of the Minor Poems, and in all Collected Editions of the Poet's Works. ”

“ Frederick Locker-Lampson's collection is an autograph copy of the poem of "The Talking Oak," containing two stanzas, quoted in the Catalogue in extenso, not appearing in any of the published editions, but which it is quite possible were also printed in the early proofs, or in some small private issue of the first edition of 1842, and afterwards struck out. There is indeed no evidence, as in the former case, that these two stanzas were actually printed by the author, and not scored through before sending the "copy" to the printer ”

“ A mystic City, goal of high Emprize,"
is there attributed to "Chapman." Mr. Swinburne told me, in 1874, when we were conferring on the forthcoming edition of Chapman, that he believed this couplet to be Tennyson's own. It certainly proved indiscoverable in any of Chapman's original Poems or Translations, where it could hardly have failed to arrest the Editor's attention, either in preparing the "copy" or in correcting the proof-sheets. ”

“ I never saw but one copy of Arthur Hallam's collected Poems. Tennyson's maiden volume attracted considerable attention from the leading Reviews of the period; it was noticed at unusual length by the Westminster Review, and in Blackwood's Magazine by Christopher North,—whose criticism called forth an epigram from the young poet in his ensuing volume of 1832, 1833. It was also reviewed by Arthur Henry Hallam in the brief-lived Englishman's Magazine, published by Edward Moxon in 1831: of this interesting notice only a small portion is reprinted in Arthur Hallam's Remains. ”

“ Other new poems are: "The Northern Farmer (New style) ;" "The Higher Pantheism;" and a versified story from Boccaccio, "The Golden Supper," originally intended to have been preceded, as it afterwards was, by a revised reprint of the early poem of "The Lover's Tale," to which it forms a sequel; all these appear for the first time; and the three poems of "Lucretius," "Wages" and "The Victim," already published in Macmillan's Magazine and elsewhere, were reprinted among the miscellaneous poems. that closed this volume. ”

“ I printed a few copies privately, as a little pamphlet of sixteen pages, uniform in size with Moxon's editions of the poet's other works, and in December, 1870, I wrote two anticipatory notices which appeared in the Echo, some days or weeks before the publication of the volume containing Mr. Arthur Sullivan's music, much to the indignation of the publisher, the printers, and I suppose of the author.
A rival concordance to Mr. Barron Brightwell's guinea book, of much smaller size, was issued by Tennyson's new publishers, Strahan and Co. ”

“ A man who tries to subsist by literary work of the class which alone appealed to the sympathies of Mr. Shepherd has a desperate fight with circumstances, and sometimes a hit below the belt may occur on one side or the other. Those who at this distance of time can recall any disagreeable event connected with him who has left us must, however, be extremely few. Animosity could hardly continue with a man so fundamentally good-natured as Shepherd, and it is a fact that the last person against whom Mr. ”

“ Small Red-cloth Popular Edition of the Works of Alfred Tennyson. In volumes. London: H. S. King and Co., 1873-1874.
Three original unpublished poems appeared for the first time in this edition, viz., "England and America in 1772" (contributed to an American newspaper in 1872) ; "The Voice and the Peak"; and the Stanzas on the death of Sir John Simeon, entitled "In the Garden at Swainston." Some considerable additions were made to the text of two of the "Idylls of the King,"—"The Coming of Arthur" and "Vivien." ”

“ Thompson's copy, with autograph corrections, fetched £60, at Sotheby and Wilkinson's, In 1869 "The Lover's Tale," with considerable alterations, and with the addition of a hitherto unprinted section, was sent to the press by the author, to accompany or precede the poem of "The Golden Supper," {published in the volume of "The Holy Grail," etc.,) which forms a sequel to it. But it was again suppressed before publication; and "The Golden Supper" (founded on a prose story in the Decameron of Boccaccio) was published alone, on its own merits. ”

“ The second and third editions were published in the same year, and contain like the first, in addition to the introductory and concluding poems, 130 numbered sections only. The numbered sections of "In Memoriam" (which eventually increased to 132) were apparently written between the autumn of 1833, after the death of Arthur Hallam in September of that year, and the spring or summer of 1836. The concluding poem, or Epithalamium, was written in 1842, and the Introductory lines bear the date of 1849, in which year the work was presumably printed. ”

“ In later years, partly through failing powers of vision, the Poet's letters, except to very intimate friends, were generally dictated to his wife or eldest son, or written by them in the third person, in accordance with his instructions. Autograph letters of his, especially those of later date, are of the utmost rarity. ”

“ The Princess: A Medley. By Alfred Tennyson. Fifth Edition, green cloth, pp. 183. London: Edward Moxon, 1853.
The passage quoted from "the gallant glorious chronicle," in the Prologue, is first added in this edition, which presents the final text of the poem, as it afterwards appeared. A set of the first five editions of "The Princess" is indispensable to a collector or student curious respecting the genesis and history of the poem. ”

“ Stanzas added to the National Anthem; "The War" (May, 1859) ; Inscription for the Mausoleum of the Duchess of Kent; "Old and New Year" (1865-1866) .
"The Lover's Tale" was originally printed (1870) by Strangeways and Walden, and again (1875) with the Minor Poems, by Ogden, The latter reprint is disfigured by two clerical errors unobserved in the final proof-sheets and which had to be corrected by errata, The former reprint is therefore preferable (where procurable) as regards the principal poem: as the pagination is the same either will fit into the volume. ”

“ V. (English Idylls: it may be remarked that this classification of certain blank-verse narratives is the Poet's own.)
1. "The Epic" (with reference only to "Morte d'Arthur," transferred to "The Passing of Arthur," in "Idylls of the King," Vol. XII.) . ”

“ Two Translations, in blank verse, from the "Iliad" of Homer (with the original Greek text) .
Index of First Lines.
Detailed Contents of Vol. VII. (Patriotic and Laureate Poems.)
1. National Song: "There is no land like England" (from Poems, Chiefly Lyrical," 1830) .
"Love thou thy land, with love far brought" (1842) .
3. "You ask me, why, though ill at ease" (1842) .
4. To the Queen, 1851.
5. to 8. Poems contributed to the Examiner: "Hands all Round" (with later version) ; "Britons, Guard Your Own"; "The Third of February, 1852"; "How much I love this Writer's Manly Style." ”

“ To W. G. Ward, and other short poems in the 'Demeter" volume, and "The Death of Ænone."
Fragments.
Unpublished lines quoted by Alford, 1830-31 (see Memoir of Dean Alford) : "Tennyson says:—
"To search the secret is beyond our lore,
And man must wait till God doth furnish more."
The Eagle: A Fragment, 1842,
"What time I wasted youthful hours," 1851, in the metre of "The Two Voices," and perhaps composed originally to form part of that poem.
"Move eastward, happy earth" (1842) . ”

“ Hallam Tennyson, with some introductory memorial stanzas by the Poet Laureate.
The volume "Poems, by Two Brothers" was reprinted after the Poet's death in 1893, with the initials of the authors attached to each poem. It appears that four were by Frederick Tennyson.
1829.
Timbuctoo: A Poem (in blank verse) which obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, by A. Tennyson, Trinity College. Printed in the Prolusiones Academicæ of 1829. Cantabrigiæ (Cambridge) : Joannes Smith. 8vo., thin pamphlet. pp. 13. ”

“ Poems, Narrative, Elegiac and Lyrical (not included under the above headings) ; Ballads; Poems addressed to friends; Sonnets; Experiments; Dialect Poems; "Nugæ"; and Fragments (with various readings) .
Vols. XI., XII. Idylls of the King (with various readings) .
Vols. XIII., XIV. and XV. Dramatic Works.
Detailed Contents of Vol. I. (Juvenilia, 1827-1832.)
1. Alfred Tennyson's contributions to "Poems, by Two Brothers," 1827 (separated by internal and external evidence) . ”

“ Mr. Thackeray, Mr. Yates, and the Garrick Club. The Correspondence and Facts stated by Edmund Yates. Printed for Private Circulation, 1859; reprinted in facsimile, MDCCCXCV. Contains a letter to Mr. Edmund Yates, dated "36, Onslow Square, June 14th, 1858," and signed "W. M. Thackeray;" a letter to the Committee of the Garrick Club, dated "36, Onslow Square, June 19th, 1858," signed "W. M. Thackeray;" a letter to Charles Dickens, dated "36, Onslow Square, 26th November, 1858;" ”

“ Dedication: "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" (verso blank) . pp. 5 to 19 printed on recto only.
Size: 107/8 × 8.
A series of twelve songs, connected by the slender thread of a pretty love-story successful in its issue. Printed at the private press of Sir Ivor Bertie Guest: a very small edition was struck off, and a copy appearing in the market commands a high price. The text differs considerably from that of the edition published three or four years later, with Mr. ”