The Arthurian Legend in English Literature From Eighteen Hundred and Fifty to the Present Time
Abstract
SUMMARY OF ARTHURIAN DEVELOPMENT TO THE PRE-RAPHAELITE PERIOD Rising amid the romantic mists of the twelfth century is a little stream, so small that a legendary mountain deer could drink it dry on a summer's day. The stream trickles down the hill, increasing as it goes, stealing its way among the rocks. Other streams join their waters till, when the plains are reached, a noble river is formed. Onward it journeys for many a mile; and then it is the lordly Arthurian river bearing on its broad bosom argosies of inspiration for poet, musician, and painter. It was the Historia Regum Brittanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth that opened this little spring which has flowed and flourished well nigh a thousand years.
Subject Area
Literature|British and Irish literature
Recommended Citation
Ahern, Michael Christopher, "The Arthurian Legend in English Literature From Eighteen Hundred and Fifty to the Present Time" (1936). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28960392.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28960392
