King Arthur

Jessie L. Weston

Jessie L. Weston is long-dead, but her work lives on. Though many of her ideas have been disproved by modern Arthurian scholars, her books had a great impact on the intellectual world of her day.

From Ritual to Romance: The classic that inspired T.S. Elliot's The Waste Land.
Hardcover.
Paperback. (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology)
Guingamour, Lanval, Tyolet, Le Bisclaveret: A discussion of several popular medieval lais.
King Arthur and His Knights: A Survey of Arthurian Romance: Jessie L. Weston takes a look at the entire Arthurian tradition in the romances.
Legend of Sir Gawain: Studies upon Its Original Scope and Significance: A look at the stories about one of the most famous knights of the Round Table.
Legend of Sir Lancelot Du Lac: Studies upon Its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycles: A thought-provoking study of the legends of Arthur's greatest knight.
The Legend of Sir Perceval (2 Volumes in 1): This fine study provides excellent coverage of the Perceval Grail stories, including many obscure variants.
Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediaeval Dutch (Arthurian Romances Unrepresented in Malory's Morte Darthur Series): Commentary is included with Jessie L. Weston's fair translation of this extremely rare Arthurian romance.
The Romance of Perlesvaus: This study examines one of the more obscure--and unusual--Grail stories.
Romance, Vision & Satire: While not entirely Arthurian, this work uses some Arthurian examples to make various points.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern prose: Not a translation but, rather, a retelling of the famous poem; commentary included.
Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys (Arthurian Romances Unrepresented in Malory's Morte D'Arthur, No. 7): A fair presentation of an unusual story about Sir Gawain.
Sir Gawain at the Grail Castle (Arthurian Romances Unrepresented in Malory's 'Morte D'Arthur,' No. 6): This compilation covers several Grail stories that feature Sir Gawain.
The Three Days' Tournament: A Study in Romance and Folk-Lore, Being an Appendix to the Author's Legend of Sir Lancelot.: Jessie L. Weston makes some classic observations about the Lancelot legends in this companion piece to Legend of Sir Lancelot Du Lac: Studies upon Its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycles.
Tristan and Iseult (Arthurian Romances: Unrepresented in Malory's Morte D'Arthur, Vol 2/Part 1, and Vol 3/Part 2): Jessie L. Weston takes a look at one of the lesser known versions of the Tristan story.
Hardcover (1970).

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