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Merlin and the Gleam

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

First published September 1992
Type Poem

The Merlin of this poem is inspired by Merlin Caledonius, the Scottish seer (subject of an 1889 poem by John Veitch which Tennyson read), whose legends are related to but not identical with the Merlin of Arthurian legend.

First published in Demeter and Other Poems (1889).