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Recollections of the Arabian Nights

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Recollections of the Arabian Nights
by Alfred Tennyson
MeterIambic tetrameter
Publication date
  • 1830
  • 1842
  • 1857
Lines154
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"Recollections of the Arabian Nights" is an early poem by Alfred Tennyson, first published in 1830.

Analysis

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With this poem should be compared the description of Harun al Rashid’s Garden of Gladness in the story of Nur-al-din Ali and the damsel Anis al Talis in the Thirty-Sixth Night.[1]

According to John Churton Collins, the style appears to have been modelled on Coleridge’s Kubla Khan and Lewti, and the influence of Coleridge is very perceptible throughout the poem.[1]

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Notes

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  1. ^ “Golden prime” from Shakespeare. “That cropp’d the golden prime of this sweet prince.” (Rich. III., i., sc. ii., 248.)
  2. ^ 1830. Through.
  3. ^ 1830. Through.
  4. ^ 1830 and 1842. Sophas.
  5. ^ 1830. Breaded blosms.
  6. ^ 1830. Through crystal.
  7. ^ 1830. Through.
  8. ^ “Bulbul” is the Persian for nightingale. Cf. Princes, iv., 104:—“O Bulbul, any rose of Gulistan / Shall brush her veil”.
  9. ^ 1830. Withholding. So 1842, 1843, 1845.
  10. ^ 1830. Blackgreen.
  11. ^ 1830. Of saffron light.
  12. ^ 1830. Unrayed.
  13. ^ 1830. Through ... borne.
  14. ^ Shakespeare has the same expression: “The hum of either army stilly sounds”. (Henry V., act iv., prol.)
  15. ^ 1842. Roseries.
  16. ^ 1830. Wreathed.
  17. ^ 1830. Below.
  18. ^ 1830. Underpropped. 1842. Underpropp’d.
  19. ^ 1830. O’ the.

References

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  1. ^ a b Collins, ed. 1900, p. 43.

Sources

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  • Collins, John Churton, ed. (1900). The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. London: Methuen & Co. pp. xv, 13–17. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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