WorkAlfred Tennyson

Poems, Chiefly Lyrical

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Documented 1836

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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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Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p85, p108–p109, p180–p182, p188

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“From Tennyson. Wan wasted truth in her utmost need [...] 'The million stars which tremble / Oer the deep mind of dauntless infancy.' [...] 'The Ox / Feeds in the herb [...] Tennyson.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).

(3) pp180–182 [not in SMF hand]: 'The Poet's Mind' and 'The Mystic' — both from Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830). (4) p188 [not in SMF hand]: 'The Deserted House Tennyson' — from Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830). Fuller also opens section at p85 with fragments from 'The Poet' (1832 Poems) and 'The Mystic' and some unidentified Tennyson fragments. Cataloged as one entry covering both 1830 and 1832 volumes, citing the earlier collection as primary.