The Glory of Arthur (PDF)
The Legendary King in Epic Poems of Layamon, Spenser and Blake
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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. This book shows how Britain became the promised land of a pagan goddess where mythical events are as important as those of history, and how the figure of Arthur is transformed into a British Messiah whose Christian realm is in continuous interaction with the Otherworld of Faerie, an imagined place between the spiritual and the earthly. Arthur as perceived through Blake's vision is the earthly embodiment of the fallen Albion; this exploration of the mythic underpinnings of the English sense of nationhood reveals an imaginative consciousness that links us to "human existence itself."
Autoren-Porträt von Jeffrey John Dixon
Jeffrey John Dixon was brought up in a part of London where the streets are named after Arthurian characters, leading to a lifelong fascination with the legends. After studying English Literature at Sussex University he travelled widely and now lives and writes in Powys, United Kingdom.
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- Autor: Jeffrey John Dixon
- 2014, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1476616094
- ISBN-13: 9781476616094
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2014
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