Arthurian Poets: John Masefield

Masefield, John

ISBN 10: 0851153631 / ISBN 13: 9780851153636

Edité par The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1994

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8vo, 398 pp., Edited & with an introduction by David Llewellyn Dodds.

N° de réf. du vendeur 107552

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Arthurian Poets: John Masefield
• Éditeur: The Boydell Press, Woodbridge
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0851153631
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780851153636
• Reliure: softcover
• Édition: 1st.
• État de l'article: Fine copy
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

Collected edition of Masefield's Arthurian poetry including previously unpublished material. Introduction by the author.

At the end of the nineteenth century, a homeless runaway teenager in New York found a job in a bar and discovered Malory. So began the lifelong interest of the future Poet Laureate, John Masefield (1878-1967), in the story of KingArthur. After becoming a popular, successful narrative poet and playwright, Masefield turned to the Arthurian material in earnest, producing the verse drama Tristan and Isolt in 1927 and Midsummer Night a year laterwith its Arthurian cycle.
All29 of Masefield's previously published Arthurian poems from the Ballad of Sir Bors (1903) to Caer Ocvran (1966) are collected here in addition to the full-length tragi-comedy When Good King Arthur. Also included are nine poems never before published which, together with prose notes, reveal Masefield undertaking an ambitious retelling of the Arthurian myth.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This collected edition of John Masefield's Arthurian poetry contains all 28 of his published poems, in addition to the full-length tragi-comedy "When Good King Arthur", and nine unpublished poems with prose notes.