| Description |
224 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 221. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. The Welsh tradition: the annals of Wales, the history of the Britons, the life of St. Carannog -- 2. The History of the kings of Britain / Geoffrey of Monmouth -- 4. Cullhwch and Olwen (from The Mabinogion) -- 5. The Lay of Sir Launfal / Marie de France -- 6. Yvan or the knight with the lion / Chrétien de Troyes -- 7. Tristan / Gottfried von Strassburg -- 8. Parzival / Wolfram von Eschenbach -- 9. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- 10. The Most piteous tale of the morte Arthur saunz guerdon / Sir Thomas Malory -- 11. The Tudor historians -- Polydore Vergil, John Leland -- 12. The Gothick revival -- The Grave of King Arthur / Thomas Wharton -- The Misfortunes of Elphin / Thomas Love Peacock -- 13. The Victorian image of the legends -- Idylls of the king / Alfred Tennyson -- Tristram and Iseult / Matthew Arnold -- The Defense of Guenevere / William Morris -- Tristram of Lyonesse / Algernon Swinburne -- 14. The Twentieth century -- Taliessin through Logres / Charles Williams -- The Once and future king / T. H. White -- Bibliography. |
| Subject |
Arthurian romances.
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| Added Author |
Barber, Richard W.
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| ISBN |
0880290501 |
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9780880290500 |
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