. Bibliography of the first editions in book form of the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson : the description of a set brought together by Dodd, Mead & Company, with notes referring to items not included in the set . inters mark, (the initials I. B, G. inter-twined), half-title, title, and dedication, each one leaf;text, 15 leaves, printed on one side only, followed by ablank leaf. These verses were written while Tennyson was vis-iting at Canford Manor, and were first printed, withTennysons permission, at the private press of hishost. Sir Ivor Bertie Guest. The marks on the title-page, =, -^i X<
. Bibliography of the first editions in book form of the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson : the description of a set brought together by Dodd, Mead & Company, with notes referring to items not included in the set . inters mark, (the initials I. B, G. inter-twined), half-title, title, and dedication, each one leaf;text, 15 leaves, printed on one side only, followed by ablank leaf. These verses were written while Tennyson was vis-iting at Canford Manor, and were first printed, withTennysons permission, at the private press of hishost. Sir Ivor Bertie Guest. The marks on the title-page, =, -^i X< 7 are said to be the private marksof the amateur compositors, Lord Wimborne, LadyLayard, Lady Charlotte Schreiber and Mrs. E. Pon-sonby. The volume has this dedication: These little songs whose almost sole merit, / at least tillthey are wedded to music, / is that they are so excellentlyprinted, / I Dedicate / to / The Printer. 50 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON THE WINDOW, xibj—ConHnued The Memoir states that it was at the suggestion ofSir George Grove that Tennyson undertook to writea series of songs to be set to music, but in the pref- THE WINDOW. THE LOVES OF THE WRENS ALFRED TENNYSON. D. C L. POET CANIKSUD lUNOB. =^». UDCCCLXVIL atory note to the published edition with the musicTennyson says: Four years ago Mr. Sullivan re-quested me to write a little song cycle, German fash-ion, for him to exercise his art upon. The text of the poem in this private edition differsconsiderably from all the published versions. Theprincipal changes are made in Sections V and VL 51 WORKS OF THE WINDOW, l^t^—Continued Section V here contains three stanzas of eight lineseach. The second, which was omitted in the pub-lished versions, is: Birds love and mens love, Once and once for all;And you so small and you so fair, You so fair and small!You so fair! am I so black ? Arent we birds of a feather ?You so small! am I so tall? Cant we come together ? The poem was first collected in the C
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