Tennyson's Life and Poetry: And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson — John Shaqi
Tennyson's Life and Poetry: And Mistakes Concerning TennysonParsons, Eugene
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Tennyson's Life and Poetry: And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson
Parsons, Eugene
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
_Poemes de Alfredo Tennyson_--_Enoch Arden_, _Gareth y Lynette_, _Merlin y
Bibiana_, etc. Tr. by D. Vicente de Arana. Barcelona, 1883.
ITALIAN.
_Idilli, Liriche, Mite e Leggende, Enoc Arden._ Tr. by C. Faccioli.
Verona, 1876.
_Tommaso Crammero e Maria e Filippo._[47] Tr. by C. Faccioli. Verona,
1878.
_Il Primo Diverbio._[48] Tr. by E. Castelnuovo. Venice, 1886.
_La Prima Lite._[48] Tr. by P. T. Pavolini. Bologna, 1888.
LATIN.
_In Memoriam._ Tr. into Elegiac verse by O. A. Smith. 1866.
_Enoch Arden_: Poema Tennysonianum Latine Redditum W. Selwyn. London,
1867.
_Horæ Tennysonianæ_: sive Eclogæ e Tennysono Latine Redditæ A. J. Church.
London and Cambridge, 1870.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Three volumes of verse by Frederick Tennyson have appeared, viz.:
_Days and Hours_ (1854); _Isles of Greece; Sappho and Alcæus_ (1890);
_Daphne, and Other Poems_ (1801). The published works of Charles Turner
are as follows: _Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces_ (1830); _Sonnets_ (1864);
_Small Tableaux_ (1868); _Sonnets, Lyrics and Translations_ (1873);
_Collected Sonnets, Old and New_ (1880). Edward Tennyson (1813-1890)
achieved something of a reputation as a versifier; he contributed a sonnet
to the _Yorkshire Annual_ for 1832.
[2] Edward Fitzgerald, in a letter written in 1835, says: "I will say no
more of Tennyson than that the more I have seen of him, the more cause I
have to think him great. His little humours and grumpinesses were so
droll, that I was always laughing.... I felt what Charles Lamb describes,
a sense of depression at times from the overshadowing of a so much more
lofty intellect than my own."--_Letters and Literary Remains_, vol. i.
[3] "Tennyson has been in town for some time: he has been making fresh
poems, which are finer, they say, than any he has done. But I believe he
is chiefly meditating on the purging and subliming of what he has already
done: and repents that he has published at all yet. It is fine to see how
in each succeeding poem the smaller ornaments and fancies drop away, and
leave the grand ideas single."--_Letters of Edward Fitzgerald_, vol. i.,
p. 21.
Extract from a letter dated October 23, 1833.
[4] "Alfred Tennyson dined with us. I am always a little disappointed with
the exterior of our poet when I look at him, in spite of his eyes, which
are very fine; but his head and face, striking and dignified as they are,
are almost too ponderous and massive for beauty in so young a man; and
every now and then there is a slightly sarcastic expression about his
mouth that almost frightens me, in spite of his shy manner and habitual
silence."--Fanny Kemble's _Records of a Girlhood_, pp. 519-20.
This entry in Fanny Kemble's journal is dated June 16, 1832.
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