Arthur and Abbey
“The clouds are broken in the sky, And thro’ the mountain-walls A rolling organ-harmony Swells up, and shakes and falls, Then move the trees, the copses nod, Wing flutter, voices […]
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Category: Issue Twenty-Two
Gereint and Enid: A Tale of Fidelity and Trust
Gereint and Enid: A Tale of Fidelity and Trust Several of the legends recounted in The Mabinogion, a collection of Welsh folktales developed and culminated in medieval times, include characterizations […]
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Death and the Knight
Death sheathed his sword. Its worn grip formed perfectly to his hand. Rainwater washed pools of dark blood and broken teeth across the stony ground, while crows picked flesh from […]
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Always Once and Future: Arthur as Archetype
“According to Jung there exists, in addition to the individual unconscious, a collective unconscious which is common to the whole human race . . . . Being very primitive, it […]
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The Coming of Galahad
His Childhood When Galahad was still a child They let him run full free And roam the castle holds and halls And hear the minstrelsy. He played amongst the […]
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Arthur in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: The Search for Regeneration
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) is rich in Arthurian imagery as it explores the dimensions of spiritual exhaustion in which Eliot’s generation found itself in the wake of “The […]
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Take Up The Tale
As I walked out one morning All in the soft fine rain It seemed as though a silver veil Was shining over hill and vale As though some lovely […]
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“To Help the Wrong’d”: Refuge and Sanctuary in the Idylls of the King
This article explores the portrayal of Camelot as a sanctuary in Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King. Like many of the medieval sources that inspired him, and reflecting his […]
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The Sword in the Stone – A Triolet
The Triolet is a lesser-known French medieval poetic form that is a close cousin to the more popular and prolific rondeau. The name Triolet comes from the three repetitions of […]
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