Arthurian cycle
Arthurian myth
Arthurian poetry
Ballad of Sir Bors
Caer Ocvran
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King Arthur
Malory
Midsummer Night
Narrative poet
Playwright
Poems
Retelling
Tristan and Isolt
Verse drama
Product details
- ISBN 9780851153636
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 11 Aug 1994
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Collected edition of Masefield's Arthurian poetry including previously unpublished material. Introduction by the author.
At the end of the nineteenth century, a homeless runaway teenager in New York found a job in a bar and discovered Malory. So began the lifelong interest of the future Poet Laureate, John Masefield (1878-1967), in the story of KingArthur. After becoming a popular, successful narrative poet and playwright, Masefield turned to the Arthurian material in earnest, producing the verse drama Tristan and Isolt in 1927 and Midsummer Night a year laterwith its Arthurian cycle.
All29 of Masefield's previously published Arthurian poems from the Ballad of Sir Bors (1903) to Caer Ocvran (1966) are collected here in addition to the full-length tragi-comedy When Good King Arthur. Also included are nine poems never before published which, together with prose notes, reveal Masefield undertaking an ambitious retelling of the Arthurian myth.
