Title: "Arthur, the greatest king" :
Authors: Lupack, Alan.
Date: 1988
Publisher: Garland,
Physical description: xxxvi, 300 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: Foreward / by Raymond H. Thompson -- Introduction / by Alan Lupack -- The Egyptian maid / William Wordsworth -- The sword of Kingship / Thomas Westwood -- The quest of the Sangraal / Robert S. Hawker -- Dir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere, The lady of Shalott, Merlin and the gleam / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The defence of Guenevere, King Arthur's tomb, Sir Galahad, A Christmas mystery, The chapel in Lyoness / William Morris -- Tristam and Iseult / Matthew Arnold -- King Ban / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- The last ballad / John Davidson -- When I set out for Lyonnesse / Thomas Hardy --Knight's of King Arthur's court / Jesse Weston -- The castle of Carbonek, The quest of the grail: on the eve, Sir Launcelot and the Sancgreal, The song of the four knights, The unfinished book of Bleise, King Arthur's sleep / Ernest Rhys -- The riddles of Merlin / Alfred Noyes -- The ballad of Sir Bors, The sailing of hell race, The fight at Camlan / John Masefield -- Launcelot / C.S. Lewis -- The crowning of Arthur, The departure of Merlin / Charles Williams -- Merlin / Edwin Muir -- Merlin in the cave: he speculates, Without a book / Thom Gunn -- The vision of Sir Launfal / James Russell Lowell -- Merlin I, Merlin II, Merlin's song / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Cerdic and Arthur / John Leslie Hall -- The last love of Gawaine / Richard Hovey -- The vision of the holy grail / Eugene Field -- Guenevere / Sara Teasdale -- Elaine / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Guinevere at her fireside, Iseult of Brittany / Dorothy Parker --Launcelot / Sinclair Lewis -- Ballad of Launcelot and Elaine, The death of Sir Lancelot / Edgar Lee Masters -- Merlin / Thomas Caldecot Chubb -- Modred / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Sir Lancelot du Lake, King Arthur / Christopher Ward -- Sir Gawaine and the green knight / Yvor Winters -- The holy grail / Jack Spicer -- Launcelot in hell / John Ciardi -- Merlin enthralled / Richard Wilbur.
Subject headings (LCSH): American poetry; Arthur, King--Poetry.; Arthurian romances--Adaptations.; Arthurian romances.; English poetry--19th century; English poetry--20th century; Kings and rulers--Poetry.; Middle Ages--Poetry.; Poetry.