The Fall of Camelot: A Study of Tennyson's Idylls of the King

by John D. Rosenberg

The Idylls of the King is one of the indisputably great long poems in the English language. Yet Tennyson's doom-laden prophecy of the fall of the West has been dismissed as a Victorian-Gothic fairy tale. John D. Rosenberg maintains that no poem of comparable magnitude has been so misread or so maligned in the twentieth century as Tennyson's symbolist masterpiece.

In The Fall of Camelot the author calls into question...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674422937
• ISBN13: 9780674422933
• Release Date: February 1973
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"