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    P^gg^^i^S^^ 1572 The Publishers' Circula...

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    TIRESIAS.*

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    K)i A LAST LOOK ROUND.

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    Tiresias.*

    TIRESIAS . *

    The poems contained in Lord Tennyson ' s new volume will greatly exalt the estimation

    in which the Poet Laureate is held by all the lovers of English poetry . There can be no doubt that the book will long be a source of

    abundant enjoyment and fruitful study to every thoughtful reader . The volume contains in all twenty-six poemsof which ' Balin and Balan / a new

    , contribution to the * Idylls of the King , ' is the longest . ' Tiresias ' is an idyll , embodied

    in the poet ' s fine address to the late Mr . Edward Fitzgerald : — * A birthday line

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    volume is * The Wreck '; and in poems ' The Ancient Sage' lines may be found which are equal to

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    poor whose wan cease der less ing answer witless was waif , ' To Moll -morra y Magee ' her ,

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    volume Probabl however y the most will popular be The poem Spinster in the ' s

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    the quaintest words . , The lyrics entertained in the volume will

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 18, 1885, page 1572, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_18121885/page/4/