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Alternate cover edition of ISBN10: 0140422536 ISBN13: 9780140422535Written in the middle of his career, Idylls of the King is Tennysons longest and most ambitious work. Reflecting his lifelong interest in Arthurian themes, his primary sources were Malorys Morte dArthur and the Welsh Mabinogion. For him, the Idylls embodied the universal and unending war between sense and soul, and Arthur the highest ideals of manhood and kingship an attitude totally compatible with the moral outlook of his age. Poetically, Tennyson was heir to the Romantics, and Keatss influence in particular can be seen clearly in much of his work. Yet Tennysons style is undoubtedly his own and he achieved a delicacy of phrase and subtlety of metrical effect that are unmatched. This edition, based on the text authorized by Tennyson himself, contains full critical apparatus.