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• Title: Letters, Scraps of Manuscript, And Printed Poems: The Correspondence of Edward Fitzgerald and Alfred Tennyson.
• Author : Victorian Poetry
• Release Date : January 22, 2008
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 227 KB

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"Well, 'My Master,' you need not reply to all this." (1) Edward FitzGerald begins the concluding paragraph of his final letter to Alfred Tennyson by relieving him of any obligation to write back. In so doing he draws the history of their correspondence to an appropriate close. Over the course of nearly half a century of friendship, FitzGerald had learnt not to expect replies to his regular letters. After 1850, when Tennyson's marriage removed him from London and out of the company of his friend, FitzGerald wrote at least every six months, obedient to a wish, expressed by Tennyson in his first letter to FitzGerald, that he should "'write often whether I answer or no.'" (2) FitzGerald's earlier letters often request replies, always with the expectation of disappointment: "Do let me have a line from one of you one day.... There was a very low purple Campanula (I think) on the Down by you, which I should like a bit of in a letter: but you won't send it." (3) These requests are punctuated by remonstrance and complaint: "Nobody writes to me--Nobody's fault but my own; for, though I write to Somebody, he doesn't think me worth answering by Letter." (4) Tennyson's rare letters often make excuses for his silence, sometimes blaming circumstance--"If you had known how much I have gone through since I saw you, you would pardon perhaps my ungracious silence"--and regularly referring to his own hatred of letter-writing: "but then I know that you like writing which I hate mortally." (5) Their opposite attitudes to letter-writing have received some biographical attention, but it seems worth reconsidering in view of the rising profile of print culture in the study of Victorian literature, as it delineates a nostalgic commitment to literature in manuscript alongside a modern, although sometimes regretful, commitment to print. This article will examine the epistolary relationship of the poet and the man of letters in the context of each man's attitude to institutional hegemonies of print that came to dominate all aspects of literary production in the nineteenth century. It will go on to read "To E. FitzGerald," Tennyson's belated print-epistle to his old friend, as an attempt by the laureate to recapture the literary ethic that FitzGerald had embodied.

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