Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ARTHUR LOVELL WARE...
...King Arthur" deserves, perhaps, to rank first among the poems of Bulwer, as being the most elaborate. He deals with the same subjects and times as Tennyson, in his "Morte d'Arthur," and still can in no instance be accused of imitating the poet laureate. He obtains much of his information from different sources, and has worked these into a poem that really does not compare unfavorably with Tennyson's creation. Many passages in this play have been considered by some people worthy of Shakespeare...