Note 2 — TENNYSON’S LIFE AND POETRY.

Edward Fitzgerald, in a letter written in 1835, says: “I will say no more of Tennyson than that the more I have seen of him, the more cause I have to think him great. His little humours and grumpinesses were so droll, that I was always laughing.... I felt what Charles Lamb describes, a sense of depression at times from the overshadowing of a so much more lofty intellect than my own.”—Letters and Literary Remains, vol. i.