Jeffrey John Dixon

The Glory of Arthur

The Legendary King in Epic Poems of Layamon, Spenser and Blake

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Produktbeschreibung

Starting with William Blake's lost painting The Ancient Britons, this book shows how the visionary artist and poet reworked the Matter of Britain--the corpus of legends presenting an alternative history of Britain--into his own mythology. He thus adds to a tradition of Arthurian epic begun by Layamon in the 13th century and continued by Edmund Spenser in the 16th, in which a Romano-Celtic warlord becomes an icon of the English imagination. This book shows how Britain became the promised land of a pagan goddess where mythical events are as important as those of history, and how the figure of Arthur is transformed into a British Messiah whose Christian realm is in continuous interaction with the Otherworld of Faerie, an imagined place between the spiritual and the earthly. Arthur as perceived through Blake's vision is the earthly embodiment of the fallen Albion; this exploration of the mythic underpinnings of the English sense of nationhood reveals an imaginative consciousness that links us to "human existence itself."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9780786494569
• ISBN-10: 0786494565
• Artikelnr.: 40305266

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey John Dixon, after studying English literature at Sussex University, travelled widely and now lives and writes in Powys, United Kingdom.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface delete
1 Introduction: Imagining Arthur delete
5 Prologue: The Lost Ancient Britons delete
11 One.
The Founding of Britain delete
31 Two.
The Conversion of Britain delete
47 Three.
Dreaming of Sovereignty delete
61 Four.
Immortal Imagination delete
84 Five.
The Image of a Brave Knight delete
102 Six.
The King of Two Worlds delete
115 Seven.
The Sun of Britain Sets delete
133 Eight.
The British Messiah delete
149 Nine.
The Couch of Albion delete
165 Epilogue: Believing Vision delete
178 Appendix: Masterful Images delete
183 Chapter Notes delete
191 Bibliography delete
195 Index delete
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