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Edward Moxon, the young publisher whom Arthur Hallam in 1832 decided was just right for Tennyson’s next publication, had the background and meteoric business success which even Samuel Smiles of Self-Help fame would have applauded. Born on 12 December 1801 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, the eldest son of Michael Moxon, a textile worker, Edward received at most three or four years of formal schooling before being apprenticed at age nine to Edward Smith, a local bookseller. Yet this youngster, whom Leigh Hunt was later to describe as “a bookseller among poets, and a poet among booksellers,” somehow picked up enough love of poetry to devote his life to publishing it.1 That he also wrote poetry himself no doubt set him apart from the more mundane purveyors of books and helped to insure his success.2
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Edmund Blunden, Leigh Hunt: A Biography (London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1930), p. 289.
William Knight, ed., Letters of the Wordsworth Family from 1787 to 1855 3 vols. (Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1907), ii, pp. 296–7.
Walter Graham, English Literary Periodicals ( New York: Nelson, 1930 ), p. 292.
Charles and Frances Brookfield, Mrs. Brookfield and Her Circle, rev. ed. (London: Pitman, 1906 ), p. 178.
Richard Chenevix Trench, Letters and Memorials, 2 vols. (London: Kegan Paul, 1888), 4 p. 111. (Letter of 20 Mar. 1832.)
Hugh J. Schonfield, ed., Letters to Frederick Tennyson ( London: Hogarth Press, 1930 ), pp. 26–7. Letter of 20 May 1832.)
Catharine B. Johnson, William Bodham Donne and His Friends (London and New York: E. P. Dutton, 1905 ), pp. 10–11, 14.
See Ralph Rader, Tennyson’s Maud: The Biographical Genesis (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963), pp. 30–1, and in toto.
The actual changes have been elucidated by J. F. A. Pyre, in The Formation of Tennyson’s Style ( Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1921 );
Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., in Tennyson and the Reviewers; and Joyce Green, in “Tennyson’s Development During the ‘Ten Years’ Silence’ (1832–1842),” PMLA, 66 (1951) pp. 662–97.
Jerome Buckley, Tennyson: The Growth of a Poet ( Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960 ), p. 70.
E. E. Kellett, “The Press,” in G. M. Young, Early Victorian England ( London: Oxford University Press, 1934 ), p. 91.
W. F. Rawnsley, in H. D. Rawnsley, Memories of the Tennysons ( Glasgow: Maclehose, 1900 ), pp. 125–6.
See Valerie Pitt, Tennyson Laureate (London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962), p. 279, for a description of this volume.
John Pfordresher, A Variorum Edition of Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King” (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1973), pp. 11–12.
Thomas R. Lounsbury, The Life and Times of Tennyson (1809–1850) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1915), pp. 357–8.
A. McKinley Terhune, The Life of Edward FitzGerald (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1947) pp. 77–8, quoting MS letter to Allen, 31 May 1837.
Anna O. Allen, John Allen and His Friends (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1922, P. 54.
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Hagen, J.S. (1979). Persuasive Friends: Moxon, Hallam, FitzGerald (1832–41). In: Tennyson and His Publishers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04436-8_2
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