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Article: "Shadowing sense at war with soul": Julia Margaret Cameron's photographic illustrations of Tennyson's Idylls of the King.(Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
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- Victorian Poetry
- Article date:
- December 22, 2002
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ONE CHRISTMAS, WHEN I WAS about TWELVE YEARS OLD, I RECEIVED A pictorial history of the Arthurian legend. As I paged through it, I was startled to find, amidst splendidly illuminated illustrations from the middle ages, a black and white photograph of King Arthur, looking as chiseled as a statue, yet clearly a real person. Because I was a fanciful and melodramatic twelve-year old, for a moment I half believed it was King Arthur. Then, of course, common sense reared its dull head to remind me that Arthur predated photography by at least a thousand years and in no way could this be Arthur. But my fascination with the photograph remained; it was as real and seemingly ...
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