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| Alfred Lord Tennyson | ||||||||||||||||
| Idylls of the King
(1859-1885) - was nearly 50 when he started the work
which contained distorted [reworked]
characters: Merlin, Lady of the Lake, Gawain. Never grasped the "epic" as a whole; focused on Guinevere as the central character. -Stephen Humphreys Villiers Gurteen, The Arthurian Epic, New York: GP Putnam's Sons 1895 Born in Somersby, Lincolnshire 1809. Schooled at Louth and by his father, a rector. Wrote an epic of 6000 lines at the age of 12. In 1830 he volunteered in the army of a Spanish insurgent. Appointed poet laureate, succeeding Wordsworth. His works include the following:
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| He died at Aldworth in 1892 while
reading Shakespeare and had a public funeral in
Westminster Abbey. -Tennyson bio prefacing Idylls of the King, New American Library of World Literature Inc., 1961 |
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