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The Tale of Balen
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A narrative poem by the Victorian writer Swinburne, retelling the Arthurian legend of the knight Balen from Malory's *Le Morte d'Arthur*. It suits readers interested in Victorian poetry, Arthurian myth, and medieval-inspired verse.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He was a major contributor to the Pre-Raphaelite movement in poetry, along with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. His greatest works are the verse drama Atalanta in Calydon (1865), written in the form of an Ancient Greek tragedy, and his Pre-Raphaelite Poems and Ballads (1866).
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