The Moxon Tennyson eries in Victorian studies S series editors: Joseph McLaughlin and elizabeth Miller Katherine D. harris, Forget Me Not: The Rise of the British Literary Annual, 1823–1835 Rebecca Rainof, The Victorian Novel of Adulthood: Plot and Purgatory in Fictions of Maturity erika Wright, Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp, editors, Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics Anna Maria Jones and Rebecca n. Mitchell, editors, Drawing on the Victorians: The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts Mary elizabeth Leighton and Lisa surridge, The Plot Thickens: Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier Dorice Williams elliott, Transported to Botany Bay: Class, National Identity, and the Literary Figure of the Australian Convict Melisa Klimaszewski, Collaborative Dickens: Authorship and Victorian Christmas Periodicals sarah Parker and Ana Parejo Vadillo, editors, Michael Field: Decadent Moderns simon Cooke, The Moxon Tennyson: A Landmark in Victorian Illustration The Moxon Tennyson A Landmark in Victorian Illustration Simon Cooke OhiO University Press • Athens ohio University Press, Athens, ohio 45701 ohioswallow.com © 2021 by ohio University Press All rights reserved To obtain permission to quote, reprint, or otherwise reproduce or distribute material from ohio University Press publications, please contact our rights and permissions department at (740) 593-1154 or (740) 593-4536 (fax). Printed in the United states of America ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper ƒ ™ 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data names: Cooke, simon (simon Gareth), author. Title: The Moxon Tennyson : a landmark in Victorian illustration / simon Cooke. Description: Athens : ohio University Press, [2021] | series: series in Victorian studies | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCn 2020027014 | IsBn 9780821424261 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) | IsBn 9780821446973 (pdf) subjects: LCsh: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. Poems--Illustrations. | Moxon, edward, 1801-1858. | Illustration of books--england--19th century. | Literature publishing--england--history--19th century. | Authors and publishers--england--history--19th century. | Book design--england--history--19th century. | Printing--england--history--19th century. | Literature and society--england--history--19th century. Classification: LCC PR5588 .C66 2021 | DDC 821/.8--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020027014 In loving memory of Mark hinchliffe Poet, collector, lifelong friend These woodcuts will be of much use in making people think and puzzle a little. —John Ruskin Contents List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction The Edition and the Critics 1 1 The Making of the Book Contexts, Collaborations, and Clashes 17 2 Painting, Time, Light, Landscape 51 3 englishness, the Modern, Copying from Nature 86 4 Psychology, Dreaming, Medievalism 118 5 Relationships, Gender, Androgyny 145 6 Reception, Influence, Afterlife 171 Appendix 1 The Illustrator Who never Was Lizzie Siddal 191 ix