Arthurian Torso
For For readers of Charles Williams's Arthurian poetry and of the Inklings; not for a reader new to Williams, who should start with the poems themselves.
A book in two parts, published by Oxford University Press in 1948. The first is The Figure of Arthur, the unfinished prose study of the growth of the Arthurian legend that Charles Williams left at his death in 1945. The second is Lewis's own 'Williams and the Arthuriad', a commentary on Williams's two cycles of Arthurian poems, Taliessin through Logres (1938) and The Region of the Summer Stars (1944). Lewis explains the geography, symbolism and story of Williams's difficult poems in order, and argues for their importance. The volume is both a memorial to Williams and the fullest guide to his poetry written by someone who knew his mind.
Catalog IDW.BQS3EV.P