Word: lancelot
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...sojourn at Lancelot's castle, Joyous Gard, with the dark
...poem is a long one, containing some 4600 lines of that admirably moulded blank verse which one expects of him. As in "Merlin" and "Lancelot", the chief emphasis is put upon the passionate and destructive love that burns his characters to ashes; and he has made every effort to make that love as real to his twentieth century readers as it was to Tristram and Isolt themselves. He has somewhat altered the story to do so. For example, the love drink is not one mentioned; Tristram and Isolt are consumed by a passion which it needs no magical agency...
...afraid he cannot give an unequivocal answer. Mr. Robinson has written a beautiful poem, the best he has published since "Lancelot": but it is not entirely successful. Granted his, method of attack, it is necessary that his characters should be vivid and distinct, their personalities clearly differentiated. Unfortunately they are not. It is, of course, exceedingly difficult to describe two people, both violently in love with each other, and, without describing anything else about them, make them distinct; it is nevertheless a difficulty Mr. Robinson, if his poem was to be really successful, had to overcome. But this the very...
...what might King Arthur have sued Sir Lancelot...
...dawn of Saxon history, with heroic ideals looming in twilit feudal minds. Aethelwold, the king's foster-brother, prepares to ride into the dawn for the king's bride-a flax-haired Lancelot for a bucolic Arthur. They pledge their fraternity over staked swords. . . . Later, in a druidic Devon wood, Aelfrida's beauty twists this pledge. It is too early in history for a Lancelot to live with his own deceit. He buries his dagger in his own chest for brother-love, which is yet held above love for woman. Hasty critics have objected that such...