num_pages: 367
description: "A glorious poet."--Gerard Manley HopkinsWith regal melancholy and superb craftmanship, Alfred, Lord Tennyson evokes Past and Present--the Isle of the Lotos-eaters, heraldic Camelot, and his own twilit English gardens--seeking to reconcile the Victorian zeal for public progress with private despair. He juxtaposed opposites--not only Old Times and New, but also Beauty and Squalor, High Class and Low--and then entwined them, allowing his work to transcend its own achievements and intentions. Using eloquence, epic grandeur, and myth, Tennyson created the masterful style most imitated by poets of his era. And his haunting, rhapsodic poems, detailing the struggles of kings and commoners, 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: Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Arthurian, Historical Fiction, Literature, Mythology, Poetry, Victorian, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 449
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Signet Classic