The future queen has absolutely no voice or presence in the poem aside from being a figure of great beauty and virtue:
Despite his seeming determination to ensure his daughter�s happiness, Guinevere�s wishes are not even mentioned. This edition also includes Tennyson's poem on the 'Birth of Arthur', in which Tennyson removed the stain of incest from Arthur's conception by telling a story in which Arthur is found as a baby abandoned on a beach.Alfred, Lord Tennyson�s �The Coming of Arthur� addresses the circumstances surrounding King Arthur�s birth and his subsequent rise to power within the context of Leodogran�s quest to prove the king worthy of his daughter�s hand. This is a copy of the first Idyll Tennyson published (one of the four planned Idylls focusing on female characters: Enid, Elaine, Vivien and Guenevere), 'The Story of Guenevere'. Among other projects, he illustrated the works of famous classical (Dante, Rabelais) and contemporary authors (Balzac, Milton, Coleridge). Gustave Doré (1832-83) was one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the nineteenth century.
These fine examples of the history of printing Arthurian literature bear witness to the melancholic and entrancing quality of both Tennyson's poetry and Doré's illustrations. Tennyson's poetry celebrates the age of chivalry and its finest example, Arthur, from a typical Victorian perspective, hailing manhood and blaming female agency for the destruction of the Round Table. The influence of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poetic retelling of the Arthurian legend on generations of Victorian readers and beyond is well known. You may click on the thumbnail images to view them full screenĪlfred, Lord Tennyson, The Story of Arthur and Guinevere and the fate of Sir Lancelot of the Lake as told in Antique Legends and Ballads, and in Modern Poetry, with 9 illustrations by Gustave Doré. The Story of Arthur and Guinevere and the fate of Sir Lancelot of the Lake
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