SOURCE: "Returning to 1859," in Man and His Myths: Tennyson's Idylls of the King in Critical Context, New York University Press, 1984, pp. 77-138.
In the essay that follows, Buckler examines some of the idylls as symbolic meditations on the literary enterprise.
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