The Fall of Camelot : : A Study of Tennyson's ‹i›Idylls of the King‹/i› / / 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...
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