Acknowledgement
Abbreviations
List of Figures
INTRODUCTION
PART 1 PRELIMINARY
Chapter 1 The Function of Poetry in the Age of Periodical Criticism
PART 2 ALFRED TENNYSON
Chapter 2 Voicing Women in the First Idylls of the King
Chapter 3 The Holy Grail in the Shadow of Darwinism
Chapter 4 Selection of the Idyllic Genre: Rebuilding Camelot in Idylls of the King
PART 3 WILLIAM MORRIS
Chapter 5 Morris in the Discussion of the 'Dramatic': 'The Defence of Guenevere'
Chapter 6 Morris in Apprenticeship: His Etude on the Arthurian Motif
Chapter 7 Romance, or the Sense of the Past in The Earthly Paradise
Chapter 8 Morris as a Storyteller: His Position in the Aesthetic Movement
CONCLUSION
Appendix A Tennyson's Idylls of the King: A Chronology
Appendix B Morris's The Earthly Paradise: The Structure
Bibliography
Index