ABSTRACT
Published 1842. ‘Partly if not wholly written in 1830’ (Mem. ii 122); but both Heath MS and T.Nbk 15 (all variants are below) make it clear that T. was still working on it in 1833. T.MS explains T.’s subtitle A Fragment; it describes the meeting of Launcelot and Guinevere with Merlin, and their journey. T. later quarried these lines, e.g. for The Princess v 250–3. See Life of the Life (I 548), which was a song within Sir Launcelot and which was quoted in a letter from J. M. Kemble to W. B. Donne, 22 June 1833 (which came down to Mary Barham Johnson):
