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The arthurian legend of camelot has been told many times, but never better than by alfred tennyson. Tennyson had a lifelong interest in the legend of king arthur and after the huge success of his poem morte darthur he built on the theme with this series of twelve poems, written in two periods of intense creativity over nearly twenty years. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, publishers advertisements. Tennysons treatment of these legends is now valued as a deeply significant oblique. Many people prefer to read offline or to print out text and read from the real printed page. As the principal narrative poem of nineteenthcentury england, tennysons idylls of the king is an ambitious and widely influential reworking of the arthurian legends of the middle ages, which have provided a great body of myth and symbol to writers, painters, and composers for the past hundred years. Inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, charlotte schrieber from a tennyson augu 12th 1859. Idylls of the king wikisource, the free online library.
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