Arthur's Round Table rises in glory and crumbles through Guinevere's betrayal, told in twelve linked verse tales.
Books that mention Idylls of the King (8)
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery: “It was Anne’s idea that they dramatize Elaine. They had studied Tennyson’s poem in school the preceding winter”
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: “You remind me of Elaine in the 'Idylls of the King'.”
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: “Well----Shall we try 'The Idylls of the King?”
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence: “Andersen and Grimm were being left behind for the “Idylls of the King””
So Big by Edna Ferber: “the fragrant lines, “Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, the lily maid of Astolat.””
Possession by A. S. Byatt: “demanding that the poem be taught... instead of the Idylls of the King, or Ragnarök.”
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis: “he delighted in the homicides and morality of “Idylls of the King.””
Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope: “Though she was reading the "Idylls of the King," or pretending to read them, she was, in truth, thinking of all that had gone from her.”