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Summary. Idylls of the King is the culmination of Tennyson’s lifelong fascination with the Arthurian legend. At an early age, the poet became taken with the story of the king who had united his ...
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Bors, a knight of the Round Table. He reports back to Arthur...
- Among New Men, Strange Faces, Other Minds
Context: Sir Bedivere, the last surviving knight of the...
- He Makes No Friend Who Never Made a Foe
Context: Elaine of Astolat lies stricken mortally and...
- The Greater The Man The Greater Courtesy
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- From The Great Deep To The Great Deep
Context: Young King Arthur presumes to seek the hand of fair...
- Clothed In White Samite, Mystic, Wonderful
Context: Arthur has led his knights into their last battle,...
- Man Dreams Of Fame While Woman Wakes To Love
Context: Vivien, the beautiful, wily, and malignant daughter...
- To Where Beyond These Voices There Is Peace
Context: The guilty love between Sir Lancelot and Queen...
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The Coming of Arthur. Gorlois and Ygerne bear one daughter, Bellicent. King Uther overcomes Gorlois in battle and forces the widow to marry him immediately. Shortly afterward King Uther dies ...
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Section Summaries Chart. Section. Summary. The Coming of Arthur. Leodogran is the king of the fictional land of Cemeliard. "The land of Cameliard was waste" because the entire region la... Read More. Gareth and Lynette. Young Gareth desperately wants to be allowed to grow up and spread his wings.
Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson Though the poems are set in the distant past, many of the ideals set forward are representative of the Victorian age in which Tennyson lived. Individual poems follow the stories of certain knights or other important figures, like Lancelot and Merlin, and the overall arc of the epic tells the ...
At a Glance. Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote multiple versions of the epic poetry collection Idylls of the King between 1842 and 1888. He weaves the collection of twelve poems together to form one epic. Idylls of the King is based on the legend of King Arthur first published in English in 1469 by Thomas Mallory (c. 1415–71) called Le Morte d'Arthur.
The knight Geraint observes the insult and goes on a quest to avenge his queen's honor. He meets and falls in love with a young woman named Enid. Her evil cousin Edryn threatens Enid's father's estate. This cousin also happens to be the knight who insulted the queen. Geraint defeats Enid's cousin and thereby wins her hand in marriage.
The character of Arthur in Idylls of the King is an extreme optimist when it comes to human nature. He believes people are basically honest, with an unlimited capacity and desire for self-improvement. This belief prompts him to create a society based only on his knights’ promises rather than scary stuff like fear and punishment.
