Avalon
Avalon The sacred Isle Separate from the mortal realm Can be glimpsed by the entrancing spell Of music, books, and visual art that tells The alchemy of The Great Bard’s […]
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Tag: King Arthur
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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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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Sir Galahad and the End of the Quest
This tale is presented as if it were a portion of a Medieval manuscript, suddenly found after all these years. The non-scriptural footnotes are presented as the work of a […]
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The True History of the Holy Graal
THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE HOLY GRAAL Donald T. Williams, PhD King’s Poet King’s Man As it was handed down faithfully from father to son in the household […]
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Return to the Timeless Legend
In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. — Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte […]
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“No Truste For to Truste In”: Malory’s Apocalyptic Vision in Le Morte D’arthur
Heaven and earth seem divided by a thin line at times, never closer to one another than in prayer. But in the Middle Ages, this border might dissolve, especially in […]
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Medieval Virtue: Arthur and Sir Gawain, Women and Men
The accounts of King Arthur, as recorded by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace and Layamon, and the tale of Sir Gawain, as told in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, exhibit […]
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