ABSTRACT
Published Poems, 8th edn (1853). In praise of Edward Lear’s Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania and Illyria (1851). It was written 1851–2 (H.Nbk 26 has two drafts, the first of which is quoted below; the first has no title, the second: To — on his book about Greece). T.’s friend Lear is now best known for his nonsense verse, but he had a considerable reputation as a traveller and as a painter, especially of landscapes. (Poems by Tennyson Illustrated by Lear, 1889, is still of some interest.) T. was to use the In Memoriam stanza to congratulate another author on his travel-book, in To Ulysses (p. 651).
