The Beast Image in Tennyson's Idylls of the King

Engelberg, Edward

doi:10.2307/2871889

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“…The poem begins with evolution and ends with devolution, charting what Edward Engelberg calls a "beast-man-beast cycle." 12 On the one hand, it would seem to concur with Darwin when it suggests that "man," the middle figure, is a biological derivation and an ontological fiction-that man is both descended from the beast and only ever a beast; that for these reasons he may (and probably will) become a beast again when "aeon after aeon" has passed. On the other hand, the poem seems much less interested in recapitulating Darwinism itself than in exploring the way it works as an existential threat.…”

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