The Figure Of Arthur

Charles Williams Died In 1945 With This Book Unfinished: A Prose History Of King Arthur That Follows The Figure From The Thin Record Of Post-roman Britain Into The Great Medieval Romances.the Figure Of Arthur Was Williamss Attempt To Explain Why The Arthurian Story Took The Shape It Did. He Begins With What The Earliest Chronicles Actually Say, Then Watches Poets And Compilers Enlarge It Across Fourteen Centuries - Guinevere And Lancelot, Merlin, Gawaine, Morgan Le Fay - And Puts One Question At The Centre Of His Reading: Does The King Exist For The Sake Of The Grail, Or The Grail For The Sake Of The King? The Opening Chapters Were Read Aloud To J.