ABSTRACT
Published 1859. H.T. records: ‘“Someone”, writes my father, “asks how long it took to write Guinevere? About a fortnight” … My mother notes in her Journal: “July 9th, 1857. A. has brought me as a birthday present the first two lines that he has made of Guinevere, which might be the nucleus of a great poem. Arthur is parting from Guinevere, and says: But hither shall I never come again, Never lie by thy side; see thee no more— Farewell! [575–7]”.’
