Although Arthur himself played a minor role in some of these works, following in the medieval romance tradition, Tennyson's Arthurian work reached its peak of popularity with Idylls of the King, which reworked the entire narrative of Arthur's life for the Victorian era.

The poem's emphasis on imagination as subject of a poem, on the contrasts within the paradisal setting, and its discussion of the role of poet as either being blessed or cursed by imagination, has influenced many works, including Alfred Tennyson's " Palace of Art " and William Butler Yeats's Byzantium based poems.

His name, spelled as Taliessin in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King and in some subsequent works, means " shining brow " in Middle Welsh.

It can be argued that some of Tennyson's other works are linked to Hallam, for example ' Mariana ' and ' The Lady of Shallot.

The fact that the poem works through such complex and polyvalent symbolism indicates an important difference between Tennyson's work and his Arthurian source material.

The 1857 Moxon's edition of Tennyson's works was illustrated by William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Both Mackenzie King and Harper had been fond of Tennyson's Arthurian works, and Mackenzie King decided that Harper would be honoured by a statue of Sir Galahad outside the parliament buildings, with the quote cut into the stone base.

Among literary works that reference the verse are Chaucer's " Summoner's Tale ", Byron's Don Juan, Tennyson's Harold, Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and G. K. Chesterton's " The Innocence of Father Brown.

Brocéliande continues to appear throughout the Arthurian canon, in works such as Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 19th century poem Idylls of the King and 20th century works including Edwin Arlington Robinson's 1917 poem Merlin and Alan Seeger's 1916 poem Brocéliande.

In January 1913, before Terra Nova left for home, a large wooden cross was made by the ship's carpenters, inscribed with the names of the lost party and Tennyson's line from his poem Ulysses: " To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield ", and was erected as a permanent memorial on Observation Hill, overlooking Hut Point.

Knowles became intimate with a number of the most interesting men of the day, and in 1869, with Tennyson's cooperation, he founded the Metaphysical Society, the object of which was to attempt some intellectual rapprochement between religion and science by getting the leading representatives of faith and unfaith to meet and exchange views.

Tennyson's words have been set to music by a number of composers, including Paul Halley ( Untraveled Worlds, 2000 ).

On Tennyson's death there was a considerable feeling that no possible successor was acceptable, William Morris and Swinburne being hardly suitable as court poets.

Tennyson's character, however, is not the lover of public affairs seen in Homer's poems.

The poem was particularly popular amongst artists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who shared Tennyson's interest in Arthuriana ; several of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood made paintings based on episodes from the poem.

The first was probably the cycle A Shropshire Lad set by Arthur Somervell in 1904, who had begun to develop the concept of the English song-cycle in his version of Tennyson's Maud a little previously.

Gustave Doré's illustration of Arthur and Merlin for Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King, 1868

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Arthurian epic Idylls of the King, describes Lyonesse as the site of the final battle between Arthur and Mordred.

This section of the Idylls is a much expanded and altered version of Tennyson's earlier poem Morte d ' Arthur.

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

In literature, one of its earliest uses to refer to Arthur is in Alfred Tennyson's poem Lancelot and Elaine, where, however, it appears as a title of Arthur rather than as a surname, following contemporary speculation that " pendragon " had been a term for an ancient British war-chief.

* Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, The Passing of Arthur, Sibley ( Boston, MA ), 1905.

Emilia Tennyson ( 1811 – 1887 ), known simply as Emily within her family, was a younger sister of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and the fiancée of Arthur Henry Hallam, for whom Tennyson's great poem, In Memoriam A. H. H., was written.

In Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Pelleas is knighted by Arthur at a young age.

The term " spasmodic " was also applied by contemporary reviewers to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Tennyson's Maud, Longfellow's Golden Legend, and the poetry of Arthur Hugh Clough.

Jones named the movement " The Third Wave ", mis-stating the mythical belief that the third in a series of ocean waves is last and largest ( which comes from a traditional sailors ' saying that the ninth wave is the largest, as recited in Tennyson's The Coming of Arthur ).

Alfred Lord Tennyson's vision of Excalibur in his epic poem " The Passing of Arthur ," from the Idylls of the King, describes its hilt as studded with jacinths:

Arthur Hallam is the subject of Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam.

Versions of her story appear in Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King.

The best example of this is Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King, which blended the stories of King Arthur, particularly those by Thomas Malory, with contemporary concerns and ideas.

* In Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous poem " The Lady of Shalott " ( 1833, revised in 1842 ), the titular character possesses a mirror that enables her to look out on the people of Camelot, as she is under a curse that prevents her from seeing Camelot directly.

Ashley Williams, a character in the video game Mass Effect, was originally going to quote the poem during the game, but copyright issues led the developers to switch to using Tennyson's " Ulysses " in the final cut of the game.

Enid was founded during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in the Land Run of 1893, and is named after Enid, a character in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King.

Disliking the original name, he renamed the station Enid after a character in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King.

In 1875, again with Bateman, he was seen as the title character in Macbeth ; in 1876 as Othello, and as Philip in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Queen Mary ; in 1877 in Richard III ; and in The Lyons Mail.

After the production of Tennyson's The Cup and revivals of Othello ( in which Irving played Iago to Edwin Booth's title character ) and Romeo and Juliet, there began a period at the Lyceum which had a potent effect on the English stage.

Portrayals in 1892 of the characters of Wolsey in Henry VIII and of the title character in King Lear were followed in 1893 by a performance of Becket in Tennyson's play of the same name.

Rather, " Ulisse " from Dante's Inferno is Tennyson's main source for the character, which has an important effect on the poem's interpretation.

The words of Dante's character as he exhorts his men to the journey find parallel in those of Tennyson's Ulysses, who calls his men to join him on one last voyage.

Watts is featured ( not altogether favourably ) as a character in Lynn Truss ' comic novel " Tennyson's Gift ".

In 1924, he was well enough to perform in the title role of a revival of Gordin's The Stranger, inspired by Tennyson's " Enoch Arden ": the character is " a sick and broken man ", so the Adler was able to integrate his own physical weakness into the portrayal.

He praises Tennyson's resolve and character and then announces his decision to resign from the club.