WorkAlfred Tennyson

“Leonine Elegiacs," in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical”

Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

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Documented 1840

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  • 1842Poems (1842)Attested

    “I have just been reading the new poems of Tennyson.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · August 1842

    MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re19 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-07b, line 17957, letter Aug 1842; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit 'I have just been reading the new poems of Tennyson'.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1840—

Letter to William H. Channing

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“the most beautiful of all the melodies While I view etc.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Fuller names 'Tennyson's Elegiacs' explicitly — Hudspeth identified this as 'Leonine Elegiacs,' published in Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (London, 1830).