Arthurian Poets

John Masefield

By: John Masefield, David L. Dodds (Editor)

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Paperback | 11 August 1994

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Collected edition of Masefield's Arthurian poetry including previously unpublished material.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.

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Introduction	p. 1
Bibliographical Note	p. 30
The Ballad of Sir Bors	p. 35
The Begetting of Arthur	p. 36
The Birth of Arthur	p. 45
The Taking of Morgause	p. 51
The Begetting of Modred	p. 56
Badon Hill	p. 58
The Sailing of Hell Race	p. 65
Arthur and his Ring	p. 76
Midsummer Night	p. 85
The Fight on the Wall	p. 92
The Breaking of the Links	p. 107
Gwenivach Tells	p. 113
Arthur in the Ruins	p. 115
The Fight at Camlan	p. 117
The Fight on the Beach or The Passing	p. 122
Gwenivere Tells	p. 129
The Death of Lancelot	p. 131
Dust to Dust	p. 133
On the Coming of Arthur	p. 134
The Old Tale of the Begetting	p. 135
The Old Tale of the Breaking of the Links	p. 136
South and East	p. 145
The Love Gift	p. 160
Tristan's Singing	p. 168
Simkin, Tomkin and Jack	p. 179
Tristan and Isolt	p. 185
My Library: Volume One	p. 196
Caer Ocvran	p. 197
Tristan and Isolt: A Play in Verse	p. 198
The Aftermath	p. 265
Brother Lot	p. 268
Arthur's Youth	p. 272
Before the Darkness Came	p. 275
The Coming of the Pirates	p. 276
All Hallow Night	p. 277
The Hunt is Up	p. 278
Modred the Messenger	p. 281
Gareth's Wake	p. 283
When Good King Arthur. An Unpublished Play	p. 288
The Old Tale of the Breaking of the Links. Draft	p. 333
Midsummer Night. Selections from the Dialogue Drafts	p. 343
The Sailing of Hell Race. Outline and Drafts	p. 349
The Aftermath. Drafts and Outline	p. 361
Notes 1	p. 371
Notes 2	p. 373
Prospectus	p. 375
Sketch	p. 377
Chronology	p. 380
Unpublished Lecture	p. 384
Notes	p. 387
Sources and Acknowledgements	p. 394
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