Taliessin through Logres, The Region of the Summer Stars, and Arthurian Torso
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802815781 (0802815782)
Publish date: January 1st 1974
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
This, for me at least, is difficult poetry. Without the accompanying explication penned by C. S. Lewis I would have been pretty lost. Having said that, I think these volumes of poetry are amazing, and may be the greatest poetic version of the Matter of Britain from the 20th century (I'd argue that C...
"Taliessin through Logres" and "The Region of the Summer Stars" are two collections of poems written by Charles Williams and based on the Arthurian legend. They are written from the perspective of Taliessin, the court poet of Camelot, and chronicle the history of the fabled kingdom. Being written ...