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Preface to the Second Edition

10; XIII. 1–4; XXIV. 15, 16; XXXIX. 8–12; XLIII. 11, 12; XLIV. 4; XLV. 9; LVI. 28; LXXXI.; LXXXV. 101; LXXXVI.; 13–16; XCII. 13; XCIII. 5–8; XCV. 36, 37; XCVI. 22 ff.; XCIX. 9; CXVIII. 16; CXIX. 4; CXXV. 2.

For a good many of the alterations so far mentioned I am indebted, wholly or in part, to others. I have consulted Mr. Robinson’s edition of the poem, and Mr. Jacobs’s Tennyson and In Memoriam. Mr. H. W. Eve and Mr. Walter Larden sent me valuable suggestions. Two reviews of my first edition have been of use to me in preparing the second, that of Professor Beeching in the Guardian of September 11, 1901, and that of Mr. Cecil Nolan Ferrall in the Weekly Register of November 29, 1901; and Mr. Ferrall has also most kindly helped me by giving me his opinion on a number of doubtful passages. These obligations are acknowledged in detail in the notes. Finally, I owe thanks not least to the comments of several relatives and friends.

In addition to these changes I have considerably increased the number of references to parallel passages. And here I have to thank for their help several correspondents, including some of the persons already mentioned, and especially the Bishop of Derry, who lent me his copy of In