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Romanticism, King Arthur, literature, Lady of the Lake, William Blake, Romantic poetry, British poetry, William Wordsworth, Thomas Love Peacock, Walter Scott
Although few of the most popular poets of the hugely influential late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century British Romantic movement seem to have been influenced by the Arthurian tradition, we do have three who made use of Arthurian elements within their poetry, including one of the movement’s most vitally influential figures: Walter Scott published “Sir Tristrem” in 1804, William Blake made use of Arthurian materials in his “Jerusalem, The Emancipation of the Great Albion” and William Wordsworth’s 1835 “The Egyptian Maid; Or, The Romance of the Water Lily” includes Merlin and the Lady of the Lake as well as Galahad, marrying the title figure (it’s so hard to think of Galahad as a middling-aged married fellow, isn’t it?) lol The lesser-known Thomas Love Peacock also wrote a brace of Arthurian texts, the 1817 “The Round Table, or King Arthur’s Feast” and the 1829 “The Misfortunes of Elphin”.
I’m glad you posted again! I was beginning to wonder where you were…I’m so used to all your energy and enthusiasm arriving in my inbox!
Awww, thank you so much! I’m so glad to hear that you look forward to my posties! I was just so busy in the afternoons and evenings that I didn’t have time to stop and write(and besides, we weren’t really at the hotel much!), and since I was sharing a room with my sister I didn’t want to wake her up by clickity-clacking away on the keyboard in the wee hours of the morning, so I took the weekend off – but I’m back and raring to go with plenty to write about!
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