The Formation of Tennyson's Style (Classic Reprint): A Study, Primarily, of the Versification of the Early Poems: A Study, Primarily, of the Versification of the Early Poems (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Pyre, J. F. A.

9781331500247: The Formation of Tennyson's Style (Classic Reprint): A Study, Primarily, of the Versification of the Early Poems: A Study, Primarily, of the Versification of the Early Poems (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Formation of Tennyson's Style

For the texts of Tennyson's suppressed poems and for the variants of all, down to and including In Memoriam, I have made use, principally, of the editions by J. Churton Collins. Happily, since, in the case of the Early Poems at least, these texts were not to be relied on, I was able to collate them all with copies of the original editions. This opportunity I owed to the liberality of Mr. William Allis, of Milwaukee, who very kindly lent me the precious volumes from his private col lection. This study, was substantially complete as it stands, about ten years ago. N o acceptable means could then be found for its publication as a unit. At least, none was found, both pride and poverty interdicting its issue at my own expense, while I preferred indefinite suppression to a dismemberment which would have seriously damaged the connected interest of the whole. I am under peculiar obligation, therefore, to the University of Wisconsin, for the provision which enables me to present these chapters with little to deprecate except my own delinquencies.

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Excerpt from The Formation of Tennyson's Style: A Study, Primarily, of the Versification of the Early Poems

For the texts of Tennyson's suppressed poems and for the variants of all, down to and including In Memoriam, I have made use, principally, of the editions by J. Churton Collins. Happily, since, in the case of the Early Poems at least, these texts were not to be relied on, I was able to collate them all with copies of the original editions. This opportunity I owed to the liberality of Mr. William Allis, of Milwaukee, who very kindly lent me the precious volumes from his private col lection.

This study, was substantially complete as it stands, about ten years ago. N o acceptable means could then be found for its publication as a unit. At least, none was found, both pride and poverty interdicting its issue at my own expense, while I preferred indefinite suppression to a dismemberment which would have seriously damaged the connected interest of the whole. I am under peculiar obligation, therefore, to the University of Wisconsin, for the provision which enables me to present these chapters with little to deprecate except my own delinquencies.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Formation of Tennyson's Style: A Study, Primarily, of the Versification of the Early Poems

In connection with a few preliminary explanations and acknowledgments, it will not be impertinent, indeed it is almost obligatory, to mention the fact that this study has been in hand, at intervals, for a good many years. Collection of the data which furnished the basis of the study began at a time when I was less sensible than I now am, of the difficulties of the subject; at a time, too, when English metric was even less settled as to theory and nomenclature than at present, and when materials for a study of Tennyson's formative period were less accessible than they have since become. At a later time, these observations were re-tested and some of them, not so much for want of accuracy as of usefulness, were entirely discarded, while, in certain directions, they were very much amplified, and the whole was recast, approximately in the present form. Preparatory to publication, it has been revised and presumably deprived of obvious anachronisms. Although confident that this re-handling, at considerable intervals of time, has not been to the disadvantage of the work as a whole, I scarcely venture to hope I have removed every indication that it is not of a single mintage.

The metrical analyses to which Shakspere and his contemporaries had been subjected, for the purpose of giving exactness to internal evidence on questions of authorship and chronology, first suggested a similar treatment of Tennyson's verse, only here with the different object of providing data for more precise discriminations as to a poetic manner. A start in this direction could be seen in certain chapters of Corson's Primer of English Verse and in Mayor's Chapters on English Metre, as well as in short passages of Schipper's Englische Metrik.

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