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Very interesting. It took Alfred, Lord Tennyson 272 lines to write that much in Morte D'Arthur.. If you read Morte D'Arthur first and then come across the lines by Yeats, it makes you think all the more.

I have not read Morte D'Arthur yet but I would like to

Tennyson wrote Idylls of the King. Mallory wrote Le Morte D'Arthur. Mallory was a little tought to push through at times. I like T H White's The Once and Future King. Been years, but it's my favorite take on the legend.

I have that book, haven't read it yet though. Personally I love the Mary Stewart Arthruian books

Tennyson wrote Morte D'Arthur in 1842 and it was much shorter than Mallory's book. It was only 272 lines. It's exvlusively about King Arthur's death.

I happen to prefer Malory's Le Morte to Tennyson's Idylls.

If you'd like to read Tennyson's Morte D'Arthur, it's posted on the "Poem of the Week" thread and on my blog. Sir Bedivere goes through the offices of king, vassal and slave.

Thank you, though I think I acutally have that one in one of my anthologies I just have to get around to reading it