Tennyson and The Golden Treasury: A Rediscovered Revision Copy

In 1971, Philip Larkin made a rare excursion into academic writing, while editing his Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse. His subject was the most successful lyric anthology in literary history: The Golden Treasury, compiled by Francis Turner Palgrave and Alfred Tennyson. Published during his time at All Souls College, Larkin’s article described A. E. Housman’s no less than forty-one neat deletions in his copy of the anthology, alongside Housman’s heavy aesthetic interventions. Three years later, it was revealed that T. S. Eliot had used The Golden Treasury in his years as an extension lecturer on Modern English Literature. The anthology was extensively annotated by its many poetic owners, beginning with Thomas Hardy and stretching well into the twentieth century, offering a link between Victorian and Edwardian literary tastes. Yet for all its importance, no proof, trial or revision copies have previously been revealed, either in Palgrave’s hand, or in that of Tennyson. This article presents a rediscovered revision copy of The Golden Treasury in Tennyson’s library, and excavates its significance for the anthology’s textual history. By considering the copy’s annotations, the paper sheds new light on Tennyson’s poetic influences, and on his aesthetic control over the formation of a Victorian literary canon. Of the nineteenth century’s great versifiers, Tennyson was among the least prolific of literary critics. What survives in The Golden Treasury is his most prolonged and revealing judgment on the full span of English verse

Duncan, Kate Northcott (Clagett), 1892-1983 (MSS 520)

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 520. Correspondence, diaries, genealogical research, and Browning Club programs of Bowling Green, Kentucky native Kate (Clagett) Duncan. Includes her writings on the history of Bowling Green’s Presbyterian Church and some correspondence and papers of her husband, Carroll Allen Duncan

Blaauboer-Rodríguez Castillo Collection (1): Library

La donación en 2003 de la denominada colección Blaauboer-Rodríguez Castillo al Cabildo Insular de La Palma supuso la incorporación de un notable conjunto patrimonial que ha contribuido al enriquecimiento de los bienes culturales conservados en la geografía palmera. Este legado misceláneo está conformado por libros, fotografías, películas, discos y pinturas, entre otras piezas de interés. Con objeto de proporcionar una visión general del mismo, en este trabajo se estudia, en una primera parte, la biblioteca, compuesta por más de seis mil volúmenes, encontrándose especímenes de primeras ediciones de la literatura holandesa del Siglo de Oro, otras impresiones coetáneas europeas o numerosos libros románticos. Se incluye, además, un apéndice bibliográfico con la descripción de los ejemplares más valiosos.The donation in 2003 of the socalled Blaauboer-Rodríguez Castillo collection to the Cabildo Insular of La Palma meant the incorporation of a remarkable cultural heritage. This legacy shaped by books, photographs, films, records or paintings has contributed in a remarkable way to the enrichment of the cultural patrimony preserved throughout the island´s geography. With the aim of providing a general vision of the mentioned collection, the first part of this article is devoted to an in-depth study of its library. This is made up of more than six thousand volumes, containing specimens of first editions from the Golden Age Dutch literature, other contemporary European edition or numerous books from the romantic period. A bibliographical appendix is included together with the description of the most valuable copies

A critique of the foremost romanticists and Victorians (1800-1900)

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Symbol and mood in Tennyson\u27s nature poetry

The purpose of this paper is to show Tennyson\u27s preoccupation with nature in his poetry, his use of her as a projector of moods and symbolism, the interrelation of landscape with depth of feeling and narrative or even simple picturesqueness. Widely celebrated as the supreme English poet and often called the Victorian Oracle, Tennyson may well be considered the best exemplar of the nineteenth century. T.S. Eliot acclaimed his poetic greatness because of his abundance, variety, and complete competence. In addition to these positive attributes he displayed elements typical of the Victorian Age, dignity, seriousness, industrious application. More importantly, Tennyson was possessed of a real empathy with nature in the multiplicity of her vestments. She supported his moods, strengthened his designs, and provided harmonious backdrops for his lyrical or didactic purposes. In his alliance with her Tennyson employed the voice of nature poignantly, bleakly, beautifully, in portrayal as natural as his inspiration

Tennyson’s Poems

"In Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels, R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thousand previously unknown instances in which Tennyson phrases of two or three to as many as several words are similar or identical to those occurring in prior works by other hands—discoveries aided by the proliferation of digitized texts and the related development of powerful search tools over the three decades since the most recent major edition of Tennyson’s poems was published. Each of these instances may be deemed an allusion (meant to be recognized as such and pointing, for definable purposes, to a particular antecedent text), an echo (conscious or not, deliberate or not, meant to be noticed or not, meaningful or not), or merely accidental. Unless accidental, Winnick writes, these new textual parallels significantly expand our knowledge both of Tennyson’s reading and of his thematic intentions and artistic technique. Coupled with the thousand-plus textual parallels previously reported by Christopher Ricks and other scholars, he says, they suggest that a fundamental and lifelong aspect of Tennyson’s art was his habit of echoing any work, ancient or modern, which had the potential to enhance the resonance or deepen the meaning of his poems. The new textual parallels Winnick has identified point most often to the King James Bible and to such canonical authors as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Thomson, Cowper, Shelley, Byron, and Wordsworth. But they also point to many authors rarely if ever previously cited in Tennyson editions and studies, including Michael Drayton, Richard Blackmore, Isaac Watts, Erasmus Darwin, John Ogilvie, Anna Lætitia Barbauld, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, John Wilson, and—with surprising frequency—Felicia Hemans. Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels is thus a major new resource for Tennyson scholars and students, an indispensable adjunct to the 1987 edition of Tennyson’s complete poems edited by Christopher Ricks.

Catalogue of The Lafcadio Hearn Library in University of Toyama : Text Edition

・この目録は，1999年3月20日発行の改定版（稿）を基にして，その「書架目録 (Book Shelf List)」の部分を文字化（テキスト化）したもの。・現時点で判明している改訂版の誤りはできる限り修正した。・当リポジトリ（ToRepo）に搭載されているものは，そのリンク先を掲載した。・全文検索が容易であるので，書架目録のみとし，前版にあった「分類目録」，「著者・編者・被伝者索引」，「書名・文献名索引」は割愛した。・今後判明する誤りなどは，都度修正の上，ファイル全体を差し替えることで対応する予定