The Glory of Arthur: The Legendary King in Epic Poems of Layamon, Spenser and Blake

ISBN-13: 9780786494569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 212 str.

Jeffrey John Dixon

Opis

Starting with William Blake's lost painting The Ancient Britons, this book shows how the visionary artist and poet reworked the Matter of Britain--the corpus of legends presenting an alternative history of Britain--into his own mythology. He thus adds to a tradition of Arthurian epic begun by Layamon in the 13th century and continued by Edmund Spenser in the 16th, in which a Romano-Celtic warlord becomes an icon of the English imagination.