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 fragmentary attempts to poetize this story. The "Morte d' Arthur," purporting to be the eleventh book of a juvenile epic, of which the other books had been destroyed; "Sir Galahad," and "Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere." Rumours reached the public from time to time that Tennyson was occupied with a great work, of which the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table was the theme; and at last, in July, 1859, appeared the first instalment of "Idylls of the King."

The Dedication to the Memory of the Prince Consort was added in the edition of 1862, which, with the exception of three or four verbal alterations, is an exact reprint of the former edition.

For the story of Enid (the first Idyll), the poet is