Volume 2, Number 9 · June 11, 1964
Tennyson's Early Work
By Christopher Ricks
The Devil and the Lady and Unpublished Early Poems
by Alfred Tennyson, edited by Charles Tennyson
Indiana, 192 pp., $6.00
Tennyson's precocity was astonishing, and it is excellent that the clearest evidence of this is now available again. In 1930 his grandson (now Sir Charles Tennyson) published the remarkable versedrama, The Devil and the Lady, which Tennyson had written between fourteen and sixteen. In 1931 appeared Unpublished Early Poems, a fascinating and indispensable collection of juvenilia from manuscripts then in Sir Charles's possession (now at Harvard). But both were in limited editions of 1500 copies, so that it is an event of some importance that they are now reissued.
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