George Burges, the classical scholar. He had in 1832 contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine (under a pseudonym) some lines purporting to be a newly discovered portion of the Bacchae, but really composed by himself on the basis of a parallel passage in the Christus Patiens. It is apparently to these lines that Miss Barrett alludes, though the 'discovery' was then nearly ten years old.
Ultimately five.
This refers to the recent publication of Tennyson's Poems, in two volumes, the first containing a re-issue of poems previously published, while the second was wholly new, and included such poems as the 'Morte d'Arthur,' 'Ulysses,' and 'Locksley Hall.'
No doubt Mr. Kenyon's translation of Schiller's 'Gods of Greece,' which was the occasion of Miss Barrett's poem 'The Dead Pan.'