THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TENNYSON, FROM 1809 TO 1850

NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1915 Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (January 1, 1838¿1915) was an American literary historian and critic, born in Ovid, New York, January 1, 1838. He graduated at Yale in 1859 and subsequently received honorary degrees from Yale, Harvard, Lafayette, Princeton, and Aberdeen. He enlisted in the 126th New York Volunteers in 1862 and served in the Civil War as a first lieutenant. FIRST PRINTED, DECEMBER 1915, 1,000 COPIES. BEAUTIFUL BOOK, GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. NO MARKINGS ACCEPT JUST INSIDE FRONT COVER UPPER LAFT CORNER IS A SMALL AREA 1" X 1/2" WHERE AN OWNERS STAMP WAS AND WAS REMOVED. VERY NICE CONDITION WITH GOLD ON TOP EDGE OF PAGES. Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1809¿92), English poet, central figure in the Arthurian revival, who drew from classical myth and Celtic legend to write allegorical stories about the ideals and failings of his society. He was particularly influenced by Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (1485), an important source for his Arthurian idylls. In his first fully Arthurian poem ¿The Lady of Shalott¿ (1833), the lady, whose fairy nature is only referred to in passing, is drawn out of her island¿world by the sight of Lancelot on his way to Camelot, and dies. In 1842, Tennyson published three Arthurian poems, ¿Morte d'Arthur¿, ¿Sir Galahad¿, and ¿Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere¿, which would later be incorporated into Idylls of the King (1859).