This limerick on Tennyson was not included among WMR's collection included in his 1911 edition. DGR sent it to Watts in a letter of 9 May 1881. It was first printed in Doughty and Wahl,
Letters, IV. 1881
.
DGR's epigram was inspired by the recent (1880) appearance of Tennyson's “In the Children's Hospital” in his Ballads and Other Poems. Like many other Victorians, Tennyson imagined that athiests were specially subject to despair in the face of death, a view Swinburne found particularly amusing, and which he parodied.
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Text from letter to Watts-Dunton
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This limerick on Tennyson was not included among WMR's collection included in his 1911 edition. DGR sent it to Watts in a letter of 9 May 1881. It was first printed in Doughty and Wahl, Letters, IV. 1881 .
DGR's epigram was inspired by the recent (1880) appearance of Tennyson's “In the Children's Hospital” in his Ballads and Other Poems. Like many other Victorians, Tennyson imagined that athiests were specially subject to despair in the face of death, a view Swinburne found particularly amusing, and which he parodied.