Pp. [12] and [13]. Arnold.—From Stanzas composed at Carnac and Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse.
Pp. [20] and [21]. Tennyson.—The passage from Oenone and the idyll from The Princess are given here because their imagery was inspired by the Pyrenees, which the poet repeatedly visited, first of all in 1830 with Hallam, intending to aid in the Spanish revolt against Ferdinand VII. Tennyson also spent some time in the Pyrenees with Clough in 1861. It is Hallam who is referred to in In the Valley of Cauteretz, a poem which Tennyson selected to write in Queen Victoria's album. Swinburne has praised 'the solemn sweetness' of these 'majestic verses'.
P. [25]. Byron.—From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto i, 18 and 19.
P. [26]. Godley.—By permission of the author and Messrs. Methuen.
P. [29]. Butler.—By permission of Mrs. A. G. Butler. The poem originally appeared in The Times shortly after the Matterhorn accident in 1865.
P. [31]. Hardy.—By permission of the author and Messrs. Macmillan.
Pp. [32] and [33]. Watts-Dunton.—By kind permission of the author, given shortly before his death.
P. [35]. Arnold.—The first portion is from Stanzas in Memory of the Author of 'Obermann' (Étienne Pivert de Senancour); the second from Obermann once More, composed many years afterwards.
P. [38]. Symonds.—By permission of Messrs. Smith, Elder.