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12 and of those retained, some of the longer and more important, e.g., "The Lady of Shalott," "The Palace of Art," "A Dream of Fair Women," "Ænone," and "The Miller's Daughter," were either re-written or considerably altered on their reappearance in 1842. The "Hesperides," the "Poems to Kate and Rosalind," the "Darling Room," the lines "To Christopher North," and other pieces, were omitted altogether, and have never been restored. This second volume was severely attacked in the Quarterly Review of July, 1833 (No. 97), in a strain of ironical praise, in an article attributed to John Gibson Lockhart, the Editor of the Quarterly.

A Fragment. By Alfred Tennyson. London: Edward Moxon. 1833. pp. 60.

A few copies were struck off separately and distributed to college friends and others; but the poem was suppressed before publication, Probably it was originally intended to form a part, perhaps the opening part, of the volume described in the previous entry, dated also 1833, though actually published in the winter of 1832.

This poem seems to have been written in 1828, in the author's nineteenth year, and was apparently printed