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Selections by the poet's latest publishers:
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Dedicated to Alfred Tennyson. In Poetry--illustrious and consummate: In Friendship--noble and sincere. It was in his preface to this selection that he wrote the often-quoted words:
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Nor do I apprehend any more charges of being wilfully obscure, unconscientiously careless, or perversely harsh. At or about the date of these
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Selections the poet wrote to a friend, on this very point of obscurity,
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I can have little doubt that my writing has been in the main too hard for many I should have been pleased to communicate with; but I never designedly tried to puzzle people, as some of my critics have supposed. On the other hand, I never pretended to offer such literature as should be a substitute for a cigar or a game at dominoes to an idle man. So perhaps, on the whole, I get my deserts, and something over--not a crowd, but a few I value more.
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), a villa among the mountains near Geneva; this time with the additional company of Miss Anne Egerton Smith, an intimate and valued friend. But there was an unhappy close to the holiday. Miss Smith died on the night of the fourteenth of September, from heart complaint.
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