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Idylls of the King 1859 – 1885

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Tennyson

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In December 1858, Tennyson wrote to his American publishers:

I wish that you would disabuse your own minds and those of others, as far as you can, of the fancy that I am about an Epic of King Arthur.

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© 1972 The Macmillan Company, New York

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Ricks, C. (1972). Idylls of the King 1859 – 1885. In: Tennyson. Masters of World Literature Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01482-8_11

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