King Arthur, in "The Holy Grail"

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King Arthur, in "The Holy Grail"

From The Idylls of the King, by Alfred Tennyson

May 12, 2023

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For Poetry Aloud this week here are the closing words of “The Holy Grail,” one of the twelve long poems or “idylls” in Alfred Tennyson’s magnificent Idylls of the King. We are in the time of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, but the days are darkening, and Camelot is rushing to its doom. The quest, which King Arthur had advised his knigh…

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