1832.]
OF TENNYSON.
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apparently the sole published specimen of his poetical work.
Friendship's Offering for 1832 contains an original unpublished Sonnet by Alfred Tennyson, commencing:
"Me my own Fate to lasting sorrow doometh:"
These three sonnets were not included in the volume of 1832-1833, nor in any of the later volumes, or collected editions of Tennyson. They are reprinted in the small brochure of sixty-four pages already alluded to, "The Lover's Tale and other Poems, now first collected," issued for private circulation in 1875.
1832.
Poems, by Alfred Tennyson, London: Edward Moxon, 1833 (published in the winter of 1832).
Both in quantity and quality this volume surpasses its predecessor of 1830, is of much rarer occurrence, especially in the original boards, and commands a still higher price. Many of the poems were omitted altogether in later editions and never restored or reinstated,
