Tennyson's Idylls of the King Literary Relations — Sources, Influence, Analogues, Comparisons

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Charles Dickens

• Evils of Materialism in Idylls and Great Expectations
• Loyalty in Great Expectations and "The Coming of Arthur"
• Human Relationships and Materialism in Great Expectations and "The Morte D'Arthur"
• The Pathetic Fallacy and Magic — Tennyson and Dickens
• Using the Fantastic to Convey Moral Messages

Connections to Tennyson's Other Works

• "Morte d'Arthur"
• In Memoriam
• In Memoriam

Relations to the Works of Other Writers

• Malory's Morte d'Arthur and Milton's Paradise Lost
• Swinburne's The Tale of Balen
• Dante's Inferno
• Homer, Vergil, Dante
• The Idea of a Literary Canon
• In Memoriam and The Idylls
• The Arthurian Background: Alan Lupack's Camelot Project at the University of Rochester (outside the Victorian Web).
• The Importance of Setting in The Warden and "The Holy Grail"

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Last modified 30 November 2004