"I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger."Les Djinns" ("The Jinns") by Victor Hugo."The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe."Harmonie du soir" ("Evening Harmony") by Charles Baudelaire.Such times have been not since the light that ledīut now the whole Round Table is dissolvedĪnd the days darken round me, and the years,Īmong new men, strange faces, other minds."…įor the rest of my "Sasha Reads" playlist, click here. When every morning brought a noble chance,Īnd every chance brought out a noble knight. Where shall I hide my forehead and my eyes?įor now I see the true old times are dead, This is longer than usual (about 20 minutes, whereas my other poetry videos are less than 3 minutes long), so I encourage you to set aside a small chunk of time and get yourself a coffee while you listen.
(Obviously, you can also tie the coming of "Arthur, like a modern gentleman" to Tennyson's dead friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, who played an important role in Tennyson's role and works.)
When Tennyson incorporated this into the Idylls, he dropped the frame narrative, but I think the frame enriches the Arthurian story by placing it in a Victorian context, tying it more closely to Victorian themes and Tennyson's own views, as well as explicitly analogizing the second coming of Arthur to Christmas and the second coming of Christ. But the death-of-Arthur section was published earlier, in 1842, under the title "The Epic", surrounded by a frame narrative taking place at a contemporary (Victorian-era) Christmas party. Tennyson had an idea in the 1830s for a King Arthur-related epic this ultimately became, in the 1860s, Idylls of the King. So this is an opportunity to do a special reading of a lovely poem, "The Epic (Including the Morte d'Arthur)" (1842) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892). I just passed 100 subscribers on my YouTube channel (which is mostly my Sasha Reads playlist, plus a smattering of law-related songs).
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