Editing Idylls of the King (section)

== Publishing chronology ==
The first set of ''Idylls'', "Enid", "Vivien", "Elaine", and "Guinevere", was published in 1859.<ref>{{Cite book |last= Tennyson |first=Alfred |year=1859 |title= Idylls of the King |publisher=Edward Moxon & Co. |place=London |edition= 1 |url=https://archive.org/details/idyllsofking00tennrich |access-date=13 March 2016}} via Google Books</ref>  "Enid" was later divided into "The Marriage of Geraint" and "Geraint and Enid", and "Guinevere" was expanded. ''The Holy Grail and Other Poems'' appeared ten years later. "The Last Tournament" was published in ''Contemporary Review'' in 1871. "Gareth and Lynette" was published the following year. The final idyll, "Balin and Balan", was published in ''Tiresias and Other Poems'' in 1885. The Dedication was published in 1862, a year after the Prince Consort had died; the epilogue, "To the Queen", was published in 1873.