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Chargement... Idylls of the Kingpar Alfred Tennyson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I was surprised by some of the stories included in this poem about King Arthur and his knights. I found the language bogged me down in a few spots but it was mostly quite readable. ( ) Poetic version of the arthurian legends. I have to say i have zero interest in arthurian mythology but thats ok because this isn't about myths and legends this is about people. These poems have a remarkable amount of humanity in them. There are so many surprises and characters act in very human but unexpected ways. Also the magical elements of the myths are mostly minimized or made ambiguous. Other poetry epics like Orlando Furiouso or the Faerie Queene tend to be very good on the action this less so with most action taking place between the lines. However thats ok because it's again about people not events. The only real flaw is that each section is a bit long for a comfortable read in one go at least for me. One other small complaint is that it mixes in the Tristan and Isolde legend, so is your not familiar with that you may get confused as it assumes you already know it, i had to wiki it. This is really like a modern film adaptation taking modern issues and viewpoints and clothing them in the arthurian lengendry, i like. A major Victorian Poet tries to deal with some of the aspects of the Arthurian Corpus by poeticising them. There are good lines, but no great sympathy for the material as a whole. Arthur and his ideas are too totalitarian for the minds of Alfred's audience, and perhaps of Alfred himself. I think then of the legendary Arthur with his perfect personal leadership, and Alfred the king of Wessex, who was a systemizer. Tennyson should have turned his pen to Alfred, not Arthur, really. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Tennyson interprets the Arthurian myth as an epic poem, and his tales of Camelot soar to remarkable imaginative heights to trace the birth of a king; the founding, fellowship, and decline of the Round Table; and the king's inevitable departure. Encompassing romance, heroism, duty, and conflict, Tennyson's poetry charts the rise and fall of a legendary society. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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