Alfred Lord Tennyson; a study of his life and work . bit. Two similar instancesare recorded by Dr. Japp. The ms. of Foe7?is, chieflyLyrical vfSiS, we are told, lost and reproduced from memory ;while section xxxix. of In Memoriam, Old warder ofthese buried bones, having slipped into the back of awriting desk, was not included in its proper context untilthe issue of Messrs. Strahans pocket-volume edition in1870. But to return to 1849. It was a quiet year—a time ofrest before a period of movement: for the year after was tobe full of interest. In 1850 he published In IMemoriam,married, and became
Alfred Lord Tennyson; a study of his life and work . bit. Two similar instancesare recorded by Dr. Japp. The ms. of Foe7?is, chieflyLyrical vfSiS, we are told, lost and reproduced from memory ;while section xxxix. of In Memoriam, Old warder ofthese buried bones, having slipped into the back of awriting desk, was not included in its proper context untilthe issue of Messrs. Strahans pocket-volume edition in1870. But to return to 1849. It was a quiet year—a time ofrest before a period of movement: for the year after was tobe full of interest. In 1850 he published In IMemoriam,married, and became Poet Laureate. This year also saw asixth edition of the Poems, and a third of The was the most noteworthy year of his life. FROM THE PRINCESS TO IN MEMORJAM 93 In the early months he was in his chambers at LincolnsInn, busy on the songs for The Princess : his friendsletters contain no allusion to the prospect of his found him unchanged, full of his dear old stories andmany new ones, but a little aged. I wish I could take. INTERIOR OF SHIPLAKE CHURCH. twenty years off Alfreds shoulders,said FitzGerald, andset him up again in his youthful glory ! But FitzGeraldwas always recurring to those youthful performances, andthe best years of Tennysons work were yet to come. Early in 1850 Moxon published In Memoriam/ at which 94 , ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON the poet had been at work for a long while. The venturewas viewed by his friends with some apprehension. Fiveyears before FitzGerald had deprecated the idea, believingthat Lycidas was as long as an elegiac poem should be,and that the public preferred other notes. Spedding hadpraised the poem, however; and though within a fewmonths of its appearance Tennyson seems to have intendedto print it for private circulation only, he decided eventuallyto give it full publicity. It was issued anonymously as avolume of 210 pages, with seven pages of introductorymatter, and the second and third edition differed only fromthe fir
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