BIB_ID
115982
Accession number
MA 464
Creator
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892.
Display Date
ca. 1884.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (14 p.), bound ; 24.4 cm
Notes
Date is taken from a note on the front paste-down; it is possible that the poems in the notebook were written before this date. Former cataloging indicated that Tennyson may have written these drafts as early as 1863.
Includes 10 lines in Hebrew.
The pages in the notebook are loose.
With numerous corrections.
Includes 10 lines in Hebrew.
The pages in the notebook are loose.
With numerous corrections.
Summary
This notebook contains reworkings of passages from Homer's Iliad including a section published as "Achilles over the trench" (first line as published: "So saying, light-foot Iris past away") and other sections beginning with "And when they came together in one place," "Nor linger'd Paris in the lofty house," "Why how was this / Was not the wide earth free thro' all her ways," and "Whether his not unwillingness." Also includes a pencil note on the front paste-down regarding his "self-denial in accepting a peerage" and 18 lines of verse on the rear paste-down including a poem published as "Sapphics" (first line: "Faded every violet, all the roses") and unpublished verses.
Housed in
Red leather pull-off box (25.9 cm)
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