ABSTRACT
Published 1885, introducing Tiresias (I 622). Written June 1883; Edward FitzGerald died 14 June, and T. wrote to Frederick Pollock: ‘I had written a poem to him within the last week — a dedication — which he will never see’ (17 June 1883; Letters iii). T. therefore concluded Tiresias by returning to FitzGerald and mourning his death (below). The poem recalls the last visit by T. and H.T. to FitzGerald in Sept. 1876, as H.T. points out. For T.’s change of conception, see ll. 50–6n (H.Nbk 46).
