Author: Glasgow Bibliographical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Records
Author: Glasgow Bibliographical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Camelot and the Vision of Albion
Author: Geoffrey Ashe
Publisher: Aeon Books
ISBN: 1904658709
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
When archaeologists dug up the hill of Cadbury in Somerset, the reputed site of King Arthur's Camelot, thousands of visitors came to watch. They never saw anything resembling the Camelot of romance. Yet they kept coming, year after year.Why does Arthur fascinate? In this book, the secretary of the Cadbury project (himself an authority on the legend) looks for an answer. Drawing on varied researches, and on the insight embodied in William Blake's symbol of the shadowy 'Giant Albion' behind Arthur, he plunges into the psychological depths that underlie the tale of the enchanted King, his city Camelot, his mysterious departure to Avalon, his promised return.The enquiry starts from the solid facts of Cadbury. But it opens vistas on a strange world of gods and mortals and immemorial yearnings. The same universal dream that created the legendary Arthur is shown reappearing through many centuries, inspiring many thinkers: Blake himself; Virgil, Confucius, Rousseau, Gandhi; even such supposed rationalists as Robert Owen and Lenin.All the paths converge on a central problem of the human condition, which, the author suggests, must be solved if mankind is to achieve a workable humanist philosophy. It turns out that Arthur remains startlingly relevant: that the prophecy of his return has a serious meaning.
Publisher: Aeon Books
ISBN: 1904658709
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
When archaeologists dug up the hill of Cadbury in Somerset, the reputed site of King Arthur's Camelot, thousands of visitors came to watch. They never saw anything resembling the Camelot of romance. Yet they kept coming, year after year.Why does Arthur fascinate? In this book, the secretary of the Cadbury project (himself an authority on the legend) looks for an answer. Drawing on varied researches, and on the insight embodied in William Blake's symbol of the shadowy 'Giant Albion' behind Arthur, he plunges into the psychological depths that underlie the tale of the enchanted King, his city Camelot, his mysterious departure to Avalon, his promised return.The enquiry starts from the solid facts of Cadbury. But it opens vistas on a strange world of gods and mortals and immemorial yearnings. The same universal dream that created the legendary Arthur is shown reappearing through many centuries, inspiring many thinkers: Blake himself; Virgil, Confucius, Rousseau, Gandhi; even such supposed rationalists as Robert Owen and Lenin.All the paths converge on a central problem of the human condition, which, the author suggests, must be solved if mankind is to achieve a workable humanist philosophy. It turns out that Arthur remains startlingly relevant: that the prophecy of his return has a serious meaning.
The Misfortunes of Arthur
Author: Thomas Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Character of King Arthur in Medieval Literature
Author: Rosemary Morris
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0859910881
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This study is based on literry works in various languages, from earliest times until approximately 1500. The 'biographer' of Arthur, tries to interlink the various sources.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0859910881
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This study is based on literry works in various languages, from earliest times until approximately 1500. The 'biographer' of Arthur, tries to interlink the various sources.
Renaissance Essays
Author: Denys Hay
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780907628965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Denys Hay is one of the best known British historians of the Renaissance. His work is marked by a judicious and readable style, an equal interest in the affairs of England and Italy, and an ability to hold in balance the claims of political and cultural history. This collection brings together the important part of Professor Hay's work that has appeared as essays and represents all his major interests.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780907628965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Denys Hay is one of the best known British historians of the Renaissance. His work is marked by a judicious and readable style, an equal interest in the affairs of England and Italy, and an ability to hold in balance the claims of political and cultural history. This collection brings together the important part of Professor Hay's work that has appeared as essays and represents all his major interests.
The Worthines of Wales
Author: Thomas Churchyard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Spenser's Allegory
Author: Isabel Gamble MacCaffrey
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400870240
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Isabel MacCaffrey contends that, in allegory, the mind makes a model of itself, and she shows that The Faerie Queene, mirroring as it does the mind's structure, is both a treatise on and an example of the central role that imagination plays in human life. Viewing the poem as a model of Spenser's universe, the author investigates the poet's theory of knowledge and the role of imagination in the construction of cosmic models. She begins with a survey of theories of the imagination and the creation of fictions, establishing a context in which allegorical images may be understood throughout the European allegorical tradition to which The Faerie Queene belongs. Isabel MacCaffrey's new readings show that insofar as Spenser's poem concerns modes of knowledge, it offers the reader an anatomy of its own composition, an analysis of imagination in its varied relations to the world. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400870240
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Isabel MacCaffrey contends that, in allegory, the mind makes a model of itself, and she shows that The Faerie Queene, mirroring as it does the mind's structure, is both a treatise on and an example of the central role that imagination plays in human life. Viewing the poem as a model of Spenser's universe, the author investigates the poet's theory of knowledge and the role of imagination in the construction of cosmic models. She begins with a survey of theories of the imagination and the creation of fictions, establishing a context in which allegorical images may be understood throughout the European allegorical tradition to which The Faerie Queene belongs. Isabel MacCaffrey's new readings show that insofar as Spenser's poem concerns modes of knowledge, it offers the reader an anatomy of its own composition, an analysis of imagination in its varied relations to the world. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Mythologiae
Author: Natale Conti
Publisher: Garland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : la
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher: Garland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : la
Pages : 744
Book Description
The Alliterative Morte Arthure
Author: Valerie Krishna
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819130365
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
One of the finest narrative poems of the Middle Ages translated in its entirety by a recognized authority on the poem. This volume represents an important chapter in the evolution of the Arthurian legend. It is marked as an epic poem by its celebration of battle and conquest and its unsentimental depiction of combat and death.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819130365
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
One of the finest narrative poems of the Middle Ages translated in its entirety by a recognized authority on the poem. This volume represents an important chapter in the evolution of the Arthurian legend. It is marked as an epic poem by its celebration of battle and conquest and its unsentimental depiction of combat and death.
Source and Meaning in Spenser's Allegory
Author: John Erskine Hankins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description