Excerpt from The Meaning of the Idylls of the King: An Essay in Interpretation The letter of Lord Tennyson, the facsimile of which appears on the first page, was written in commendation of a brief magazine article on The Idylls of the K ing published in 1885. The inter pretation of the article of 1885 was more fully developed in a series of short studies, also published in magazine form in 1895. The present essay is a still further amplification of the original concep tion, to which is added an appendix of notes eluci dating some points passed over in the text. The author has thought it better to treat these points apart, in order to avoid unnecessary digressions from the main tenor of his theme. This study is now printed in book form, in response to re peated requests to put the interpretation in a more convenient shape than the pages of a magazine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.