Tennysonâ (Tm)S Camelot: The Idylls of the King and Its Medieval Sources

by David Staines

Book Overview

As the principal narrative poem of nineteenth-century England, Tennyson's 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. Tennyson's treatment of these legends is now valued as a deeply significant oblique commentary on cultural decadence and the precarious balance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554585929
• ISBN13: 9781554585922
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 238 Pages