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Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson (1859-1885)
Join us as we explore Alfred, Lord Tennyson's sweeping, monumental poetic cycle, Idylls of the King (published between 1859 and 1885). This work is Tennyson's ambitious, deeply personal retelling of the Arthurian legends, presented not merely as adventure stories, but as a symbolic epic tracing the rise and catastrophic fall of King Arthur's noble kingdom and his utopian vision for Camelot. . We discuss how Tennyson uses the individual stories—or "idylls"—of figures like Lancelot, Guinevere, Elaine, and Galahad to allegorize the Victorian struggle between the spiritual and the sensual, and…
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