Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — He Locked Up His Verses. [ARTICLE]

He Locked Up His Verses.

It is a singular fact that when the late Lord Tennyson wrote a poem he Invariably had it put in type and locked it up for a number of years. If at the end of the allotted time he still liked the verses he corrected’ them and had them published, if not he destroyed them.