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Article: An adventure in modern marriage: domestic development in Tennyson's Geraint and Enid and The Marriage of Geraint.(Alfred Tennyson)(Critical essay)
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- Victorian Poetry
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- March 22, 2009
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Tennyson committed decades of his life to recrafting medieval Arthurian romance into his eventual Victorian epic, Idylls of the King, but his earliest publication from the venture shows that he approached the project with concern for its relevance to modern society. "The Epic," his frame poem for the 1842 "Morte d'Arthur," concludes with a dream of Arthur returning, but an Arthur who appears "like a modern gentleman / Of stateliest port." (1) The heroic Arthur of the battlefield has already passed away, and this decorous modern replacement arrives. Tennyson's shift to the modern seems to anticipate Elizabeth Barrett Browning's assertion that epic poets should look to ...
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