Tennyson's "Idylls Of The King" 1901/1907 HC Book

Description: Acceptable condition. Please checked my other items. I combine shipping. TENNYSON'S IDYLLS OF THE KING EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY WILLIAM T. VLYMEN, PH.D. PRINCIPAL OF THE EASTERN DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN, N.Y. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO. 1907 All rights reserved ----------- 2 ----------- COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped April, 1901. Reprinted March, August, 1902: April, October, 1903: April, October, 1904; March, August, 1905; January, July, 1906; January, 1907. ----------- 3 ----------- INTRODUCTION: Life of Tennyson CONTENTS Bar losed the week Idylls of the King IDYLLS OF THE KING: The Coming of Arthur Gareth and Lynette. The Marriage of Geraint. Geraint and Enid Lancelot and Elaine The Holy Grail The Last Tournament, K. Guinevere The Passing of Arthur NOTES INDEX TO NOTES PAGE ----------- 4 ----------- INTRODUCTION ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON THE life of the poet Tennyson offers none of the pictu- resque irregularities that lend a melodramatic flavor to the biographies of so many of the great poets. The lack of balance underlying the eccentricities, the foibles, the weaknesses of many men of genius had no part in that noble, well-poised nature. The stream of his life moved. on tranquilly in its broad, deep channel, pursuing to The chronicle the end the "even tenor of its way.' of his outer life is singularly simple; the great events were all of the inner life of the emotions or the intellect. Born in 1809, in the quiet rectory of Somersby in Lin- colnshire, Alfred Tennyson lived the normal healthy life of the sturdy English boy, building up the strong body and the great frame, which were his heritage, at the same time that he was unconsciously assimilating the scholarly and poetic influences of his home. The poetic instinct seems to have shown itself very early. He says of himself: "Before I could read I was in the habit

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