The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson

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To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those poems written and published by him during his active literary career, and ultimately rejected as unsatisfactory. Of this considerable body of verse, a great part was written, not in youth or old age, but while Tennyson's powers were at their greatest. Whatever reasons may once have existed for suppressing the poems that follow, the student of English literature is entitled to demand that the whole body of Tennyson's work should now be open, without restriction or impediment, to the critical study to which the works of his compeers are subjected.
The bibliographical notes prefixed to the various poems give, in every case, the date and medium of first publication.
J.C.T.
A POEM WHICH OBTAINED THE CHANCELLOR'S MEDAL AT THE Cambridge Commencement MDCCCXXIX BY A. TENNYSON Of Trinity College

Timbuctoo
Deep in that lion-haunted inland lies
—CHAPMAN.
I stood upon the Mountain which o'erlooks