Word: arthurians
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...attempt to learn the ancient art for himself. In Author T. H. White's case, the attempt grew mostly out of an urge to pit himself against an exacting challenge, as another man might set out to climb a stubborn mountain. White, the author of a charming Arthurian tale, The Sword in the Stone, and of an excellent small novel, Mistress Masham's Repose, tells his story with an art and force that make it a book to remember...
...knew what his duties were, and in 1909, when incoming Taft appointees demanded that he perform them, he resigned. But he was never again reduced to a mean struggle for subsistence. His verse flowed out increasingly in long dramatic poems, such as Merlin, Lancelot, and Tristram, written around the Arthurian legends. In time, he won three Pulitzer Prizes (1922, 1925, 1927), lived to see Tristram become such a bestseller in 1927 that it earned him royalties...
...this movie appear to believe in nothing but Bing Crosby's box-office appeal. As Hank Martin, a young Connecticut blacksmith, Bing gets knocked on the head one stormy night at the turn of the century and wakes up in 528 A.D. at the point of an Arthurian lance. To save himself from the stake, he has only a pocketful of modern matches, a watch crystal, a hefty magnet and an almanac. This, of course, is where the fun should begin. But it doesn't. Bing riffles through his wonder-working stunts, jousts with Sir Launcelot (Henry Wilcox...
...Harold (Prince Valiant) Foster has stuck by the older and less fashionable tradition of N. C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle. The bloody adventures of his Arthurian prince are crammed with careful details, less dramatic than Caniff's, but also richer...
These descendants of the original (Gulliver's Travels) Lilliputians are the discovery of British Author T. H. White, author of three Arthurian-legend fantasies: The Sword in the Stone, The Witch in the Wood, The Ill-Made Knight. He has put them to good use in a book that is freakish fantasy from start to finish. Supposedly a children's book, it will entertain most adults (it is the Book-of-the-Month Club choice for October...