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.

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Ultimately five.

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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.'

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No doubt Mr. Kenyon's translation of Schiller's 'Gods of Greece,' which was the occasion of Miss Barrett's poem 'The Dead Pan.'