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Tennyson's Camelot: "Idylls of the King" and Its Mediaeval Sources
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Tennyson's Camelot:

Tennyson was nearly fifty when he began to write his major Arthurian poem, the Idylls of the King. From his earliest years the legends of King Arthur, "the greatest of all poetical subjects" as he called them, had fascinated and haunted him. As a child he had been familiar with Malory; throughout his life he read all available medieval writing related to thestory of Camelot.
 
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Idylls of the King
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Idylls of the KingIdylls of the King

Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892; Poet Laureate from 1850) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, following the rise and fall of Arthur and his kingdom. The whole work recounts Arthur's attempt and failure to lift up mankind and create a perfect kingdom, from his coming to power to his death at the hands of the traitor Mordred.
 
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