Here are posts labelled "Arthur et al" on The Guide
Just the Facts:
- Name: Terence Hanbury ("Tim") White
- Known as: T. H. White
- Birth: May 29, 1906, Mumbai, India
- Death: January 17, 1964, Piraeus, Greece
- Language: English
- Who he was: English novelist; The Once and Future King; (four parts: The Sword in the Stone; The Queen of Air and Darkness; The Ill-Made Knight; The Candle in the Wind); The Book of Beasts; The Book of Merlyn
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Howard Pyle
- Birth: March 5, 1853, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
- Death: November 9, 1911, Florence, Italy
- Language: English
- Who he was: American author; The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood; The Story of King Arthur and His Knights; The Story of the Champions of the Round Table; etc.
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Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Dates: late 14th century
- Place: England
- Language: English
- What it is: English poem; anonymous, but thought to be by "The Pearl Poet"
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| The "Gawain (or Pearl) Poet" as the father in Pearl |
Just the Facts:
- Name: "The Pearl Poet" or "The Gawain Poet"
- Dates: late 14th century
- Place: England
- Language: English
- Who "he" was: English poet, thought to have written Pearl, Patience, and Cleanness, as well as Sir Gawain
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Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
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| The Last Sleep of Arthur by Edward Burne-Jones |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Thomas Malory
- Birth: Unknown Date, c. 1415, Warwickshire, UK
- Death: March 14, 1471, Newgate Prison, City of London, UK
- Language: English
- Who he was: English writer; Morte D'Arthur
- Included in lists (What's This?): HC; Bloom; GC
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Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Chretien de Troyes
- Dates: 1130-1191
- Place: France
- Language: French
- Who he was: French poet; Yvain, the Knight of the Lion; Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart; Erec and Enide; Cligès; Perceval, the Story of the Grail (unfinished?)
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
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| Siegfried and Kriemhild |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Nibelungenlied
- Known as: The Song of the Nibelungs
- Dates: between 1180 and 1210
- Place: Germany
- Language: German
- What it is: German epic poem about how Siegfried slayed a dragon, how he was murdered, and how his wife Kriemhild sought revenge
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Wolfram von Eschenbach
- Dates: 1160 or 1180 to 1220
- Place: Germany
- Language: German
- Who he was: German knight and poet; Parzival; Titurel ("fragmentary"); Willehalm ("unfinished"); lyric poetry
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
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Merlin prophesies for Vortigern, from a manuscript
of the Historia Regum Britanniae |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Known as: Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus
- Dates: c. 1100-c. 1155
- Place: Wales, England
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Welsh historian; Historia Regum Britanniae (The History of the Kings of Britain)
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
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Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
