Word: lancelot
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...Hardly," and the tone implied, so the Vagabond hoped, that the question was as ill-timed as if Lancelot, baiting Arthur, might ask if he had seen "Shanghai Express." But age is the only anachronism for youth and bitterness passed unnoticed...
...prepared by Robert Johns Bulkley '32, and Lucius Beebe '27. The bibliography, which contains mention of all Robinson first editions and collector's items to date, includes more than fifty books and also establishes for the first time the status of the pirated edition of the missing canto of "Lancelot", published here under the title "Three Poems" in 1928. This is probably the rarest of all Robinson items, exceeding in scarcity even the famous paper label edition of "Captain Craig." The bibliography is complete and definitive having been prepared with the assistance of Mr. Robinson himself. Mr. Beebe...
...spends summers at artistic MacDowell Colony (Petersboro, N. H.) where he writes most of his poetry. Shy, scholarly, academic, he is a 32nd degree bachelor, is famed as most reticent, most elusive, least known U. S. man of letters. Other books: Captain Craig, The Alan Against the Sky, Merlin, Lancelot, Roman Bartholow, The Man Who Died Twice, Tristram, Calender's House, Dionysus in Doubt...
John Masefield is no minor poet, yet his genius is for telling a tale. The tale has been told time and again of Arthur and his knights, of Gwenivere and her Lancelot, but never so utterly that a master craftsman dare not render his version. Not as an epic drama in the Tennysonian manner, but like the medieval minstrel in fitful lyrics Masefield catches a climax here, a sad mood there. The variegated metres and intermittent themes are disjointed in a whole effect, but the wistful beauty of moments and moods stands out as never in earlier classics. Thus Arthur...
...told David of Windsor more than any correspondent knew about George V's condition. In England censorship of the official medical bulletins by Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks grew so drastic that prominent folk even tried to pry the truth out of Sir William's son Lancelot, previously a pallid nonentity. One day after chatting with his tall, correct, frock-coated father, Lancelot Joynson-Hicks said positively: "There is no doubt that the King is on the mend...