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9781515403449: A Book of Merlin

Synopsis

Before there was Gandalf and Dumbledore there was Merlin the legendary adviser to King Arthur. Shrouded in the magical mist of time Merlin is the wizard that all other wizards are measured against. Collected here in one edition are the stories and legends that inspired a tradition including Merlin's Youth by George Parker Bidder; The Prophecies of Merlin, and the Birth of Arthur by Sir James Knowles; Merlin by Beatrice Clay; The Prophecy of Merlin by Anne Bannerman; The Wisdom of Merlyn by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt; Wise Merlin's Foolishness by U. Waldo Cutler; Merlin I by Ralph Waldo Emerson; The Story of Merlin by Howard Pyle; The Egyptian Maid or The Romance of the Water-Lily by William Wordsworth; Merlin and Vivien by Lord Alfred Tennyson; Merlin II by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Merlin and the Gleam by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Excalibur by Sir Thomas Malory; Merlin's Song by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Merlin's Grave by Sallie Bridges; Merlin's Last Prophecy by George Darley; Merlin in Avalon by Geoffrey Junior; Merlin's Tomb by Robert Buchanan.

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À propos de l'auteur

The selections in A Book of Merlin draw on a broad range of writers, poets, scholars, and retellers who helped preserve and reshape the Merlin legend for modern readers. Sir Thomas Malory and Sir James Knowles stand near the centre of the English Arthurian tradition, presenting Merlin within the larger cycle of Arthur, Excalibur, prophecy, kingship, and the Round Table. Howard Pyle brought Arthurian legend to a wide popular readership through vigorous narrative retelling, while Alfred, Lord Tennyson gave the legend some of its most influential poetic form in the nineteenth century.The anthology also includes literary treatments by Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wordsworth, Anne Bannerman, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, George Parker Bidder, Beatrice Clay, U. Waldo Cutler, George Darley, Sallie Bridges, Geoffrey Junior, Robert Buchanan, and others. Taken together, these works show Merlin not as a single fixed character, but as a figure continually remade: seer, enchanter, counsellor, poet, trickster, doomed lover, and symbol of the ancient imaginative power behind Arthurian romance. The collection is especially suited to readers interested in Arthurian legend, British folklore, classic fantasy, medieval romance, Victorian poetry, and the literary ancestry of the modern wizard.

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