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The Charge of the Light Brigade. by TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord - 1855

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The Charge of the Light Brigade. by TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord - 1855

The Charge of the Light Brigade.

by TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord

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[London:] , 1855. Into the valley of death rode the six hundred" - printed for distribution to the troops in the Crimea First separate edition, extremely scarce in this format, one of 1,000 copies published for distribution to the troops in the Crimea. This copy is from the library of Major Adolphus Burton, CB, 5th Dragoon Guards, who commanded the regiment in the Charge of the Heavy Brigade, the successful counterpoint to the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade in the same action. The charge took place on 25 October 1854, but news of the disaster did not reach the British public until the British commanders' dispatches from the front were published in an extraordinary edition of the London Gazette of 12 November 1854. The Times followed up with a famous leader on the action the following day. According to his grandson Sir Charles Tennyson, Tennyson wrote the poem in only a few minutes after reading the account of it in The Times. Published in The Examiner on 9 December 1854, just six weeks after the event, Tennyson's poem was published as a separate piece and sent to the troops in the Crimea at the behest of Jane, Lady Franklin, wife of the lost explorer Sir John Franklin. Tennyson adds a footnote to the poem: "Having heard that the brave soldiers before Sebastopol, whom I am proud to call my countrymen, have a liking for my Ballad on the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, I have ordered a thousand copies of it to be printed for them." The text contains 55 lines, as opposed to the 46-line text first published in book form in July 1855, in the volume Maud, and Other Poems, and incorporates an extra stanza. The most notable addition is the line "Some one had blunder'd" which was omitted from the book publication. These changes were explained by Tennyson in a letter to John Foster in August 1855: "I wish to send out about 1000 slips, and I don't at all want the S.P.G. [Society for the Propagation of the Gospel] or anyone to send out the version last printed: it would, I believe, quite disappoint the soldiers." Adolphus William Desart Burton was born in 1827, grandson of Sir Charles Burton, 2nd Baronet of Pollacton, County Carlow. He purchased an ensigncy in the 82nd Foot on 1 August 1845 for the sum of £450. He transferred to the 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards as a cornet on 30 May 1847, advancing to lieutenant on 10 April 1849 and captain on 24 December 1852, all steps by purchase. The regiment embarked for the Crimea at Ballincollig, Ireland on 27 May 1854, aboard the steamer Himalaya. The Regimental History records that by 28 August, while still encamped at Varna, the 5th Dragoon Guards had lost 3 officers and 36 men to cholera and dysentery. At this point the commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Le Marchant, chose to relinquish his command and retire to England "sick". This left Burton, with just seven years' experience, as senior officer. Lord Lucan, in overall command of the cavalry, underestimated Burton and thought him too young for the command (Pomeroy 1924, Vol. I, 172), but Burton did not disappoint. He later gained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the service of the 7th Dragoon Guards. Burton's ownership is recorded by a note in manuscript at the foot of the mount initialled by his eldest daughter, Grace Denys-Burton. This is one of a very few surviving recorded copies of what is by nature an ephemeral piece: WorldCat locates four copies institutionally and only two copies appear in auction records since 1975. The poem remains the best remembered single piece of all Tennyson's poetry. Bifolium with horizontal and vertical folds, tipped-in to a larger sheet. Text printed in black. Housed in a black cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Some occasional spotting and discolouration. In excellent condition.
  • Bookseller Peter Harrington GB (GB)
  • Book Condition Used
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Place of Publication [London:]
  • Date Published 1855

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IDB Productions, 2017-01-01. MP3 CD. New. The Charge of the Light Brigade was a poem written to commemorate a suicidal indictment by a facile army over British forces in the Battle of Balaclava in Ukraine during the Crimean War. 247 men of the 637 in the army were killed or injured. Britain sought the war, which was fought by Russia against Turkey, Britain and France, because Russia attempted to invade the Dardanelles, which admonished British sea routes. </br></br>Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was a Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during the reign of Queen Victoria and he is among the very famous English poets. </br></br>Tennyson was successful at writing short lyrical poems, as "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears", and "Crossing the Bar". Most of his works were subjected on historical themes of mythology, as Ulysses, Although In Memoriam A.H.H. was written in remembrance… Read More
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