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Towards the end of Tennyson’s active period of composition and revision in the 1830s, Edward Moxon redoubled his efforts to get the poet to publish again. Edward FitzGerald, the friend who was beginning to perform some of the duties which Arthur Hallam had fulfilled before, added his exhortations to Moxon’s. In 1839, Fitz reported to Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet, “I want A. T. to publish another volume: as all his friends do… but he is too lazy and wayward to put his hand to the business. He has got fine things in the large Butcher’s Account that now lies in my room.”1 It took a new and different kind of pressure, however, finally to move the hesitant Alfred.
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John Olin Eidson, “Charles Stearns Wheeler: Emerson’s ‘Good Grecian,”’ New England Quarterly, 27 (1954). 475.
Caroline Ticknor, Hawthorne and His Publisher ( Boston and New’ York: Houghton Mifflin, 1913 ) p. 5.
Terhune, p. 125. For more on Tennyson’s water-cures, see Elizabeth Jenkins, Tennyson and Dr. Gully, Tennyson Society Occasional Paper No. 3 ( Lincoln: The Tennyson Society, 1974 ).
Wilfrid Ward, Aubrey de Vere: A Memoir ( London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1904 ), pp. 71–4.
Alethea Hayter, A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846 ( London: Faber and Faber, 1965 ), pp. 64–5.
Hugh L’Anson Fausset, Tennyson: A Modern Portrait ( New York: Appleton, 1923 ), p. 254.
John Killham, Tennyson and “The Princess”: Reflections of an Age ( London: University of London, Athlone Press, 1958 ), p. 3.
Catherine Barnes Stevenson, “Narrative Form and Point of View in The Princess, Maud, and Idylls of the King” ( PhD dissertation, New York University, 1973 ), p. 66.
See Isobel Armstrong, ed., The Major Victorian Poets: Reconsiderations ( Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press; London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969 ).
James O. Hoge, ed., The Letters of Emily Lady Tennyson (University Park, Pa, and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1974 ), p. 19.
Ibid. Charles Knight once referred to Tennyson’s “chief aversion, the ‘digito monstrari’”-Passages of a Working Life During Half a Century 3 vols. (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864), iii, p. 40.
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Hagen, J.S. (1979). Heyday for Publisher and Poet Laureate: Edward Moxon (1842–58). In: Tennyson and His Publishers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04436-8_3
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