Poetry in the Victorian marketplace: the illustrated Princess as a Christmas gift book.

From: Victorian Poetry | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

In December 1859 Emily Tennyson recorded the arrival at Farringford of the illustrated Princess (1) whose complicated, prolonged, and treacherous birth had almost killed Tennyson's decades-long relationship with the House of Moxon the previous year. "Beautifully got up," Emily admitted, "but the Illustrations we cannot admire." (2) In contrast, the critics received the illustrated volume with open arms, predicting a deserved popularity: "Mr. Moxon has produced, as a Christmas-book, the Laureate's 'Princess,' with twenty-six drawings from the hand of Mr. Daniel Maclise--an ...

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