Documents
The documents compared are listed below in chronological order of
the state of the development of the poem that each represents. One or both
of the authors examined the actual documents and verified the readings of
each of the states of the text specified. As a matter of convenience and to
save space, Tennyson is referred to as AT and his wife as ET.
- MS1 Fragment of autograph MS, Harvard;
described,
Shannon, p. 167. Lacks ll. 1-27; 43-141; 151-281
- MS2 Fragment of autograph MS, Harvard;
described,
Shannon, p. 167. Lacks ll. 1-141, 151-281
- TC Autograph MS, Trinity College, Cambridge; described
above
- MS3 MS in ET's hand with AT's autograph
corrections,
Harvard; described, Shannon, pp. 167-168. Lacks ll. 85-201. (The inserted
version of ll. 53-57 in AT's autograph is later than that in
MS4. Hence
for these lines MS4 is shown in the Collation as preceding
MS3.)
- MS4 Autograph MS, Harvard; described,
Shannon, p. 168.
Lacks the last two words of l. 120, l. 121; ll. 134-139; 170-281. (The
inserted version of ll. 53-57 is earlier than that of MS3.
For these lines
MS3 is shown as following
MS4.)
- MS5 Fragment of autograph MS, Harvard;
described,
Shannon, p. 169. Lacks ll. 1-90; 98-281
- 52(p1) Uncorrected galley proof for the first
edition, Harvard;
described, Shannon, pp. 169-170
- 52(p2) Galley proof, duplicate in size, paper, and
letterpress
of 52(p1), with AT's
autograph corrections, Tennyson Research Centre, Lincoln; described
above
- 52 First edition. (All editions collated are English, are
printed in London, and unless otherwise specified are published by Edward
Moxon.)
- MS6 Fragment of autograph MS, Harvard;
described,
Shannon, p. 169. Lacks ll. 1-250; 256-281
- 52(a) First edition with AT's autograph corrections, Pierpont
Morgan Library; described, Shannon, p. 170. (An early draft related to
final lines 171-186 in ET's hand is tipped into this copy. It is a later,
slightly variant version of similar lines in TC and appears chronologically
in the Collation immediately following TC, identified as
ET/52(a).)
- 53(p) Proof copy of the second edition with autograph
corrections, Widener Collection, Harvard; described, Shannon, p.
170
- 53 A New Edition [second edition], 1853
- 55 Maud, and Other Poems, 1855
- 56 Maud, and Other Poems. A New Edition
[third edition], 1856
- 59 Maud, and Other Poems. A New Edition
[sixth edition], 1859
- 62 Maud, and Other Poems. A New Edition
[ninth edition], 1862
- 64 Maud, and Other Poems. A New Edition
[tenth edition], 1864
- 65 Maud, and Other Poems. A New Edition
[eleventh edition], 1865 For dates and descriptions of intervening and later
editions of Maud, and Other Poems besides those listed, see
Thomas J. Wise, A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred, Lord
Tennyson, 2 vols. (1908; rpt. 1967), I, 124-140. The writers have
not been able to examine all of these.
- 65S A Selection from the Works of Alfred
Tennyson, 1865
- 70 Maud, and Other Poems. A New Edition
[seventeenth edition]. Strahan & Co., 1870
- 70 The Works of Alfred Tennyson, IX,
Miniature Edition. Strahan & Co., 1870
- 72 The Works of Alfred Tennyson, III,
Library
Edition. Strahan & Co., 1872
