16                              Gordon N.Ray

that is!" Yes, and it was wonderful, tender, beautiful—& he read ex¬
quisitely, in a voice like an organ—rather music than speech.

Maud, the most personal of Tennyson's works, long remained
the poem which he best liked to read to an appreciative audience.
The commentary with which he was accustomed to accompany
it, as recorded by Sir James Knowles in 1870 or 1871, may be
found in Tennyson Reads 'Wlaud", a Sedgwick iMemorial Lec¬
ture which I gave at the University of British Columbia in 1968.°

2 ("Vancouver: University of British Columbia Publications Centre, 1968), pp.
43-45-