Stephanie Fachiol’s Reviews > Idylls of the King: Poems Concerning the Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Complete and Unabridged > Status Update

No other interpretation has so effectively portrayed the Vivien-Delilah analogue, though it's a bit hampered by its unwillingness to commit to Merlin as an analogue for Samson (Tennyson insists Merlin didn't "really" love Vivien, probably worried about the age gap)