| For permission to examine and quote from numerous Tennyson manuscripts, I would like to acknowledge Lord Tennyson on behalf of the Tennyson trustees; the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the Huntington Library, San Marino, California; the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, New York Public Library; the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; and the Edgar Shannon-Alfred Tennyson Collection, University of Virginia Library. |
| For allowing me to reprint portions of already published articles in chapters 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 11, I would like to thank the editors of Victorian Poetry, JEGP, SEL, The Huntington Library Quarterly, and the Edwin Mellen Press. A grant from the Hodges Fund of the University of Tennessee Department of English provided me with released time to work on the manuscript during the spring of 1982. One of my colleagues, Richard Kelly, read and made valuable suggestions on an earlier stage of this study; another, Allen Dunn, helped me work through some of the critical ramifications of the Introduction. Linda Hughes combed through a late version of the complete manuscript and sent me eight sheets of yellow legal pad, both sides crammed with astute queries and suggestions. |
| Numberless times in the course of my research and composition I have felt deeply indebted to Kirk H. Beetz, whose thorough and eminently usable bibliography helped me locate many valuable articles, and to the manuscript work of Christopher Ricks, John Pfordresher, Susan Shatto, Marion Shaw, and Joseph Sendry. The more I consulted the manuscripts themselves, the more I marveled at the precision and perceptiveness of these scholars. Finally, two successive heads of the Tennessee English department, John Fisher and Joseph Trahern, offered unfailing support of this project and unbounded confidence in its eventual completion. |
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