num_pages: 320
description: Alfred, Lord Tennyson evokes past and present, seeking to reconcile the Victorian zeal for public progress with private despair. Full of eloquence, epic grandeur, and myth, his haunting, rhapsodic poems still cast their lyrical spell today.
language: English
title: Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
titlecomplete: Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
genres: Fiction, Arthurian, Classics, Victorian, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mythology, Fantasy, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 449
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Signet Classic