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"Geoffrey of Monmouth and Tennyson: A Paradoxical Parallel." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 1(4), pp. 140–141 NotesSee Tennyson in Lincoln, 2 vols. (Lincoln, England: Keyworth and Fry, 1971–73).Charles Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson (London: Macmillan, 1949), p. 296.J.M. Gray notes these similarities in “Tennyson and Geoffrey of Monmouth,” Notes and Queries, NS 14 (1967), 52–53.Geoffrey of Monmouth, British History, in Six Old English Chronicles (1848), p. 196.Idylls of the King, in The Poems of Tennyson, ed. Christopher Ricks (London and Harlow: Longmans, Green, 1969), p. 1617.Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain. Trans. Sebastian Evans (New York: Dutton, 1958), p. 139.See also a similar inversion of the image in Luke 3:5: “Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low.” I am indebted to Ms. Deborah Bowen for her helpful insights.
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