Yes I have! Though it has been a long time for the Tennyson. Did you say you wrote a paper on that? Would you post it here for us to see?! So you are the romantic sort, are you ;) Did you read deTroyes' Cliges? I like that one too! Very cute. It's weird, the sort of criticism he throws in of the decadent court life. Arthur is kinda ineffectual in deTroyes most of the time. Very unlike the brash Arthur of old Geoff or the later Malory Arthur. I like the Knight of the Lion, Yvain is a badass, but the Knight of the Cart irritates me so, since I think Lancelot is a silly nancy-boy and Guen is an evil bitch. But then, I've always had a bias toward Arthur ;) Still haven't read the Vulgate cycle. Too preachy for me. I have a really funny image of the Vulgate grail though, with a little Jesus popping out of it! It's too funny, I will dig that up for you.
Malory and Wolfram von Esenbach take the cake for me!
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So you are the romantic sort, are you ;)
Did you read deTroyes' Cliges? I like that one too! Very cute. It's weird, the sort of criticism he throws in of the decadent court life. Arthur is kinda ineffectual in deTroyes most of the time. Very unlike the brash Arthur of old Geoff or the later Malory Arthur. I like the Knight of the Lion, Yvain is a badass, but the Knight of the Cart irritates me so, since I think Lancelot is a silly nancy-boy and Guen is an evil bitch. But then, I've always had a bias toward Arthur ;)
Still haven't read the Vulgate cycle. Too preachy for me. I have a really funny image of the Vulgate grail though, with a little Jesus popping out of it! It's too funny, I will dig that up for you.
Malory and Wolfram von Esenbach take the cake for me!