Claribel (poem) explained

Claribel
Author:	Alfred Tennyson
Genre:	Romanticism
Meter:	Iambic trimeter
Rhyme:	Irregular
Lines:	21
Wikisource:	Poems (Tennyson, 1843)/Volume 1/Claribel

"Claribel: A Melody" is an early poem by Alfred Tennyson, first published in 1830.^[1]

Text

In the 1830 and 1842 editions the poem is in one long stanza, with a full stop in the 1830 edition after line 8; the 1842 edition omits the full stop. The name "Claribel" may have been suggested by Spenser,^[2] or Shakespeare.^[3]

Sources

• Book: The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson . Methuen & Co. . 1900 . Collins . John Churton . London . 2–3.

Further reading

• Duncan-Jones . Katherine . 1971 . A Note on Tennyson's "Claribel" . Victorian Poetry . 9 . 348–350.

External links

• Web site: Robins . J. D. . Claribel . Representative Poetry Online . University of Toronto Libraries.

Notes and References

1. Collins, ed. 1900, p. 2.
2. The bride of Phaon in The Faerie Queene, ii., iv.
3. Claribel, daughter of Alonso, wife to the King of Tunis in the backstory of The Tempest.