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 "The Passing of Arthur;" but it is, notwithstanding, still retained in its former position among the poems of 1842, probably for the sake of preserving the fine Introduction and Epilogue, which would be out of place in its new setting.

The "Morte d'Arthur" would seem to have been written as early as 1837. "Yesterday," writes Landor (under date 9th December, 1837), "a Mr. Moreton, a young man of rare judgment, read to me a manuscript by Mr. Tennyson, very different in style from his printed poems. The subject is the death of Arthur. It is more Homeric than any poem of our time, and rivals some of the noblest parts of the Odyssea."

"The Gardener's Daughter":

"Dora," The following Note was appended to the editions of 1842 and 1843:

"The Idyl of 'Dora' was partly suggested by one