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You were an Arthurian scholar?? I didn't know that!! That sounds soooooo cool!
I posted the entire poem above for you - it's Charles Williams (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), who went out of print in the US for quite a while (and is just now getting back into print) - his work is odd, a third theology, a third Arthurian myth, and a third his own made-up philosophy-theology-geometry-geography-e tc., so I suspect you may have to be fairly odd to love it as desperately as I do.
Ironically, considering I posted this in response to a Ford poem, John M. Ford's work was directly responsible for my reading Williams' Arthurian poetry (there's a quote from it at the beginning of Dragon Waiting, whose hellish Byzantium is all but an antithesis answer to Williams' vision of heavenly Byzantium -- and "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station" is full of references as well - Elayne and Bors, a pelican on a rock - and the line The nerves of the kingdom, the lines of exchange, if not a direct quote from Williams, certainly heavily draws on Williams' imagery).
I may have an extra copy somewhere I can get to you when/if I see you next year.
I posted the entire poem above for you - it's Charles Williams (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), who went out of print in the US for quite a while (and is just now getting back into print) - his work is odd, a third theology, a third Arthurian myth, and a third his own made-up philosophy-theology-geometry-geography-e
Ironically, considering I posted this in response to a Ford poem, John M. Ford's work was directly responsible for my reading Williams' Arthurian poetry (there's a quote from it at the beginning of Dragon Waiting, whose hellish Byzantium is all but an antithesis answer to Williams' vision of heavenly Byzantium -- and "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station" is full of references as well - Elayne and Bors, a pelican on a rock - and the line The nerves of the kingdom, the lines of exchange, if not a direct quote from Williams, certainly heavily draws on Williams' imagery).
I may have an extra copy somewhere I can get to you when/if I see you next year.