Beschreibung:
<jats:p>Alfred Tennyson'S poetical career, extending over sixty-five years between first and last volumes—from <jats:italic>Poems by Two Brothers</jats:italic> in 1827 to his posthumous volume published three weeks after his death in 1892—is punctuated not only by recurrent themes but also by the reworking of old manuscripts and his well-known revision of published texts. His revision and expansion of 110 lines beginning “Oh! that ‘twere possible” published in <jats:italic>The Tribute</jats:italic> in 1837 resulted in 1855 in the much longer <jats:italic>Maud</jats:italic>, in which the earlier lyric, now beginning “O that ‘twere possible,” is Part II, Section iv. This lyric is interesting as the nucleus around which <jats:italic>Maud</jats:italic> developed and also because of its affinities with <jats:italic>In Memoriam.</jats:italic></jats:p>