The Loly Grail: With introd. and notes by G[eorge] C[ampbell] MacaulayMacmillan, 1893 - 86 pages |
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... romances upon which this idyll is founded I have been much indebted to Mr. Alfred Nutt's book , The Legend of the Holy Grail , published by the Folk - Lore Society . Even those who do not fully accept his con- clusions as to the Celtic ...
... romances upon which this idyll is founded I have been much indebted to Mr. Alfred Nutt's book , The Legend of the Holy Grail , published by the Folk - Lore Society . Even those who do not fully accept his con- clusions as to the Celtic ...
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... romances is used , but the tale is modern ; and to find fault with the poet for making his heroes think the thoughts and speak the language of the nineteenth century would be as little reasonable as to find fault INTRODUCTION . xi.
... romances is used , but the tale is modern ; and to find fault with the poet for making his heroes think the thoughts and speak the language of the nineteenth century would be as little reasonable as to find fault INTRODUCTION . xi.
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... romances of Merlin and Lancelot for making their personages , whom they imagine to have lived in the fifth century , think and speak like men and women of the thirteenth and fourteenth . The tale then as completed has a definite moral ...
... romances of Merlin and Lancelot for making their personages , whom they imagine to have lived in the fifth century , think and speak like men and women of the thirteenth and fourteenth . The tale then as completed has a definite moral ...
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... romance which deals with this subject is the most interesting and curious literary production of that period within which the romances of chivalry were developed . Its origin and formation present problems of the greatest difficulty to ...
... romance which deals with this subject is the most interesting and curious literary production of that period within which the romances of chivalry were developed . Its origin and formation present problems of the greatest difficulty to ...
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... romance of Perceval , and the German metrical romance by Wolfram von Eschen- bach called Parzival . This last however , written in the middle of the 13th century , is in many ways original , and especially in the account which is given ...
... romance of Perceval , and the German metrical romance by Wolfram von Eschen- bach called Parzival . This last however , written in the middle of the 13th century , is in many ways original , and especially in the account which is given ...
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