Note 2 — III A GREAT FISH AND A GREATER FISHERMAN
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It is singular that this poem was written and published in 1849, and that Tennyson’s In Memoriam, which contained the famous lines:
“’T is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all,”
was written in 1834 but not published until 1850, and then anonymously. This is surely very remarkable, for it is impossible to believe that a man of the high and noble character of Clough would have consciously plagiarised any other poet.