pamphlet form, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade," reprinted from the E.xaminer.
1856.
Maud, and Other Poems. By Alfred Tennyson. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, 1856, green cloth, pp. 164.
Considerable additions, extending to some ten pages, were made to the principal poem, in this edition. The ballad of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" underwent some important alterations, especially in the final stanza.
In later editions the poem of "Maud" was divided into two and ultimately into three parts; and the second title of "A Monodrama" was added. Some years ago I had the opportunity of inspecting a set of early proof-sheets of the "Maud" volume, containing a satirical passage of several lines descriptive of the "babe-faced lord," scored out and omitted entirely from all the published editions. This passage was quoted in extenso in a paper of mine on "The Genesis of Tennyson's 'Maud,'" contributed to the North American Reviews in 1884. In these early proofs the poem was entitled, and the head-lines ran, "Maud; or the Madness."
