ABSTRACT
Published 1869 (‘1870’). On 28 June 1859, T. ‘read Sir Pelleas and Ettarre [Malory iv 21–4] … with a view to a new poem’ (Mat. ii 220). Written 1869 (CT, pp. 381–2). R. W. Rader (Tennyson’s ‘Maud’, 1963, pp. 54–5) argues that T. associated this poem ‘consciously or unconsciously with memories of Rosa [Baring]’, especially the rose-song (ll. 391–400). ‘Almost the saddest of the Idylls. The breaking of the storm’ (T.). For evidence from the stubs in H.Nbk 39 that T. wrote a prose draft of at least a major section, see D. Staines, Harvard Library Bulletin xxii (1974) 292.
