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Turner 's History discusses , as Tennyson does , how an Arthurian reality had been transmitted and disfigured by later accounts , and Turner 's footnotes illustrate the rapidly-growing range of early historical source-materials on Arthurian topics that hedged Tennyson around as he wrote . The fourth island focuses on Tennyson 's role as an Arthurian poet and his lifelong interest in reworking the medieval legends of King Arthur and thr Round Table for nineteenth-century readers . In fact , the humiliation heaped upon Boniface VIII in Anagni indicates merely the climax of the policy of Philip the Fair , who , as a very early harbinger of the revolutionary princes of the 16th century , for the first time had the hardihood to lay hands upon the substance of the Christian people . The relative obscurity of the first origins of Christianity gives rise in the minds of many to the queer belief in a true Christianity , which is supposed to have been quite different from that other which later assumed the name of Christian . It is this truest of true Christianities , which was often invoked by the naive communists , who drew pictures of their own aspirations in the absence of any other adequate ideas concerning the way of living under these disgraceful conditions of inequality in this unjust world . The theme here is Tennyson 's representative status as the first major English poet to make his career following the revolutionary nineteenth-century developments in book production and marketing . Burns wrote several poems on the blank leaves , making the volume one of the most desirable of Burns items . The offer of his services was declined by Pope Pius IX and by Charles Albert of Savoy , and instead , until the collapse of the revolutionary movement in Northern Italy , he fought ably for the city of Milan , which , influenced by Mazzini , had adopted a distinct , republican orientation .