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Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson With regal melancholy and a superb sense of craft, Tennyson's poems evoke Past and Present - The Isle of the Lotos-Eaters, heraldic Camelot, his own twilit English gardens - seeking to reconcile the Victorian zeal for public progress with private despair. Using his own eloquence or masks of mythic figures, Tennyson was the stylist most imitated... more » by poets of his day - praised over all the rest for his vigorous portrayals of the "general conscience" of statesmen and common men alike.« less