![]() ![]() Hallam and Tennyson became friends while at Cambridge University and they planned a series of joint projects to celebrate the new form of poetry, Romanticism, being produced by writers such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the deceased triumvirate of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. It is not strictly coincidental that Alfred, Lord Tennyson, began writing “Morte d’Arthur” within months after the untimely death of his closest friend, Arthur Henry Hallam. “Morte d’Arthur” helped revive interest in Arthurian stories throughout the Western world. Shortly after the death of his close friend Arthur Henry Hallam, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, adapted materials from the Arthurian legend to create a poem in which he explores the meaning of King Arthur’s death and potential return. ![]()
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