Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King” (original) (raw)

Introductory Materials

• Biographical materials (sitemap)
• Tennyson: A Brief Biography
• A Tennyson Chronology

Literature

• Works

Theme and technique

• Theme and Subject
• Plot and narrative structure
• Genre, mode, and style
• Imagery, symbol, and motif
• Setting and description
• Characterization
• Literary relations: sources, influences, confluences
• Victorian authors

Cultural Contexts (sitemaps for sections outside individual authors = ***)

• The Idylls and Victorian art — illustrations and relation of Victorian medievalism
• Social and political themes and contexts
• Religion — themes and contexts
• Economic themes and contexts***
• Victorian political history***
• Victorian social history***

Other Resources

• E.D.H. Johnson’s The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry (Princeton, 1952) — complete text in the Victorian Web
• James R. Kincaid’s Tennyson’s Major Poems (Yale UP, 1975) — complete text in the Victorian Web
• Related web resources
• Leading questions
• Victorian Web homepage

Victorian Web Authors

Created 12 September 2015