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Idylls of the King, published between 1859 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892; Poet Laureate from 1850) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom.
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Henry Collins Walsh (1863–1927) was a journalist, historian, explorer of Central America and Greenland, a founding member of the Arctic Club of America (1894), [1] and the nominal founder of The Explorers Club (1904). He is associated with the Henry Altemus Company of Philadelphia.
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Enid in the Idylls of the King (1913), illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. Enide (Welsh: Enid) is a character in Arthurian romance. [1] She is married to Erec in Chrétien de Troyes' Erec and Enide, [2] and to Geraint in the Welsh romance of Geraint and Enid analogous to Chrétien's version.
In Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2, Master Shallow boasts of portraying Sir Dagonet in "Arthur's show". This identifies the character as a buffoon. In Tennyson's 19th-century poetry cycle Idylls of the King, "Sir" Dagonet appears in "The Last Tournament". The jester is the only one on the court who could foresee the coming doom of the kingdom.
The poet Arthur Henry Hallam (1811–1833), whom Tennyson mourned with the poem In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850). (Bust by Francis Leggatt Chantrey). Written in iambic tetrameter (four-line ABBA stanzas), the poetical metre of In Memoriam A.H.H. creates the tonal effects of the sounds of grief and mourning.
Idylls of the King [30] 1877: Ariosto: Orlando Furioso: 36 drawings: Hachette and Co. (London: Ward and Lock) [30] 1884: Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven: 26 steel engravings [citation needed] London: Sampson Low and Co., New York: Harper and Co. [38] 1890: Gustave Doré: The Doré Bible Gallery: Illustrated by Gustave Doré: Philadelphia [19]