Dionysian music, patriotic sentiment, and Tennyson's Idylls of the King.(Alfred Lord Tennyson)(Critical essay)

From: Victorian Poetry | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: Celikkol, Ayse | Copyright information

In The Coming of Arthur, the first idyll in the narrative sequence of Idylls of the King, (1) the youthful Gawain, who is not yet a knight, wanders a terrain that is not yet Arthur's: 

 
   And Gawain went, and breaking into song 
   Sprang out, and followed by his flying hair 
   Ran like a colt, and leapt at all he saw. (2)

The gush of a spring and its animalistic counterpart, the gallop of a colt, evoke untamed and irrepressible ebullience. The act of breaki...

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