In the essay that follows, Buckler examines some of the idylls as symbolic meditations on the literary enterprise.

In the following chapter from Perception and Design in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King," Reed contends that Arthur enacts an idealistic transformation "through emancipating the imagination."

In the following essay, Staines discusses Tennyson's struggle with the story of the Holy Grail and how it shapes the theme of the Idylls.

In the following chapters from The Fall of Camelot: A Study of Tennyson's "Idylls of the King," Rosenberg examines the dream-images that reinforce the cyclical structure of the Idylls.

In the following essay, Colley argues that Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King reflects the commonly held view among Victorians that their society was particularly afflicted by madness. Colley shows that Tennyson used madness as a metaphor in order to emphasize the relationship between excess, particularly sexual excess, and insanity.

In the essay that follows, Knoepflmacher explores Tennyson's treatment of gender in the Idylls.

In the following essay, Simpson contends that "Elaine presents the personally and socially destructive effects of the wrong kind of artistic life and the wrong kinds of attitudes toward, behavior by, and treatment of women. "

In the following essay, de L. Ryals examines Arthur as a mediator between divine and human love, and as the hope for redeeming the world.

In the following essay, Tucker finds that in the Idylls, Tennyson "did some of the most interesting ideological work of nineteenth-century epic by abdicating his own initiative in favor of the authority of legend."

In the essay that follows, Adams claims that Idylls of the King advances a sexual morality in relation to forms of publicity.

In the following essay, Eggers considers the imagery of the Idylls as it contributes to its themes.

In the following excerpt, originally published in 1859, Gladstone positively reviews Idylls of the King and considers the poems' Arthurian subject matter.

In the following essay, the critic describes the Idylls as a pessimistic picture of the self's moral relationship with the world.

In the essay that follows, Shaw discusses the ramifications of the idealist metaphysics that Tennyson outlines in the Idylls.

In the excerpt that follows, which was originally published in Under the Microscope in 1872, Swinburne contends that Tennyson extirpates the tragic interest of Arthurian legend by portraying the characters in base moral terms.