Suggestions for old literature or poetry on medieval fantasy/romance?

After researching old translations of The Arabian Nights, I discovered a poet called John Payne, who lived 23 August 1842 – 11 February 1916:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Payne_(poet)

I delved into some of his narrative poetry, of which he occasionally used medieval or mythological subjects. Here are two small examples of his 'The Building of the Dream' from 'The Masque of Shadows' - a poem about a knight who uses a magic scroll to enter a dream of his bygone youth:

https://archive.org/details/masqueofshadowso00paynrich/page/60/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/masqueofshadowso00paynrich/page/100/mode/2up

I found his colourful imagery and poetry truly beautiful. If possible, I would like to read other 19th to early 20th-century works that explore medieval themes (knights, palaces, dragons, romantic sonnets, etc.) in a similar style.

Any recommendations would be warmly appreciated. Thanks for reading. *Air hugs.*

Note: I also posted this in another group. I hope that is okay.

>1 VoicelessTorment: It's absolutely okay, and I wish I could help you. Hopefully someone else will have some suggestions for you.

>1 VoicelessTorment: Disclaimer: I am not a heavy reader of Victorian poetry (nor really any poetry), but I suspect that depending on exactly what you mean by “mythological” or “mediaeval themes”, you would probably find something in almost any major 19th century English poet (and the minor ones also, but I don’t know them). Try Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Browning’s The Ring and the Book, and William Morris’s The Earthly Paradise for starters. Then dig around in the Collected Works of each, and the Collected Works of other major poets of the 19th century—Keats and Swinburne are a couple more possibilities.

Further disclaimer: I’m not by any means an expert. I’m mainly relying on the memory of a very Anglocentric educational long time ago.

It's been awhile since I've read them, but The Ingoldsby Legends might have something you like. I know they have ghost stories.

Read this one: The Romance of Tristan and Iseult, retold by Joseph Bédier and translated in 1927 by Hilaire Belloc.

>3 haydninvienna: Thank you so much for your informative response. *Air hugs.*

>5 Meredy: Thank you kindly. I will certainly take a look. *Air hugs.*

>7 VoicelessTorment: It begins:

My lords, if you would hear a high tale of love and of death, here is that of Tristan and Queen Iseult; how to their full joy, but to their sorrow also, they loved each other, and how at last, they died of that love together upon one day; she by him and he by her.

A high tale of love and of death: what more could one ask?

I have three copies of this book somewhere. It's a slim volume, too easily misplaced in my chaotic library. So I've had to replace it not once but twice. Worth it.

Would there by any chance be anything in the voluminous works of Sir Walter Scott that might fit your requirements?

>9 hfglen: I will look into his work. Thank you. *Air hugs.*

> Thank you, and they have! It is a lovely community; everyone has been very kind and informative.