ABSTRACT
Published 1855. Written Aug. 1853 (Mem. i 364; Mat. ii 85). T. says it was written to his wife Emily, remembering their Italian tour of 1851: ‘In a metre which I invented, representing in some measure the grandest of metres, the Horatian Alcaic.’ T. was to modify the stanza for other epistolary poems, To the Rev. F. D. Maurice (p. 505) and To Professor Jebb (III 162), and still further for To the Master of Balliol (III 219).
