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67 relations: Albert, Prince Consort, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Astolat, Avalon, Bedivere, Blank verse, Caerleon, Camelot, Courtly love, Dagonet, Dindrane, Elaine of Astolat, Elegy, English language, Enide, Epic (genre), Epic poetry, Excalibur, Fisher King, Galahad, Gareth, Gawain, Gender role, Gentleman, Geraint, Gothic architecture, Guinevere, Holy Grail, Idyll, King Arthur, King Lot, Lady of the Lake, Lancelot, Lancelot-Grail, Le Morte d'Arthur, Leodegrance, List of literary cycles, Lynette and Lyonesse, Mabinogion, Mark of Cornwall, Merlin, Mordred, Morgause, Narrative poetry, Old French, Pelleas, Penguin Classics, Percival, Poet laureate, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, ..., Poetry, Post-Vulgate Cycle, Red Knight, Roman Empire, Romanticism, Samite, Siege Perilous, Sir Balin, The Lady of Shalott, Theocritus, Thomas Malory, Three Welsh Romances, Tristan, United Kingdom, Victorian era, Victorian Web, William Caxton. Expand index (17 more) »
Albert, Prince Consort
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.
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Astolat
Astolat is a legendary city of Great Britain named in Arthurian legends.
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Avalon
Avalon (Insula Avallonis, Old French Avalon, Ynys Afallon, Ynys Afallach; literally meaning "the isle of fruit trees") is a legendary island featured in the Arthurian legend.
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Bedivere
In the Matter of Britain, Sir Bedivere (or; Bedwyr; Bédoier, also spelt Bedevere) is the Knight of the Round Table of King Arthur who returns Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake.
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Blank verse
Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter.
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Caerleon
Caerleon (Caerllion) is a suburban town and community, situated on the River Usk in the northern outskirts of the city of Newport, Wales.
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Camelot
Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur.
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Courtly love
Courtly love (or fin'amor in Occitan) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry.
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Dagonet
Sir Dagonet was King Arthur's well-beloved jester, and a Knight of the Round Table of Arthurian legend.
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Dindrane
Dindrane (or Dandrane, Danbrann, Dandrenor, Dindraine, etc.) is a character in the Old French Grail romance Perlesvaus, an anonymous prose adaptation of (and sequel to) Chrétien de Troyes' great unfinished work Percival, or The Story of the Grail.
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Elaine of Astolat
Elaine of Astolat is a figure in Arthurian legend who dies of her unrequited love for Sir Lancelot.
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Elegy
In English literature, an elegy is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Enide
Enide (Enid) is a character in Arthurian romance.
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Epic (genre)
An epic is traditionally a genre of poetry, known as epic poetry.
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Epic poetry
An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.
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Excalibur
Excalibur, or Caliburn, is the legendary sword of King Arthur, sometimes also attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty of Britain.
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Fisher King
In Arthurian legend, the Fisher King, also known as the Wounded King or Maimed King, is the last in a long line charged with keeping the Holy Grail.
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Galahad
Sir Galahad (sometime referred to as Galeas or Galath), in Arthurian legend, is a knight of King Arthur's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail.
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Gareth
Sir Gareth (Old French: Guerrehet) is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, nicknamed "Beaumains" in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.
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Gawain
Gawain (also called Gwalchmei, Gualguanus, Gauvain, Walwein, etc.) is King Arthur's nephew and a Knight of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend.
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Gender role
A gender role, also known as a sex role, is a social role encompassing a range of behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for people based on their actual or perceived sex or sexuality.
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Gentleman
In modern parlance, a gentleman (from gentle + man, translating the Old French gentilz hom) is any man of good, courteous conduct.
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Geraint
Geraint is a character from Welsh folklore and Arthurian legend, a king of Dumnonia and a valiant warrior.
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Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages.
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Guinevere
Guinevere (Gwenhwyfar; Gwenivar), often written as Guenevere or Gwenevere, is the wife of King Arthur in Arthurian legend.
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Holy Grail
The Holy Grail is a vessel that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature.
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Idyll
An idyll (British English) or idyl (American English) (or; from Greek εἰδύλλιον, eidullion, "short poem") is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls.
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King Arthur
King Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries.
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King Lot
Lot or Loth is the king of Lothian in the Arthurian legend.
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Lady of the Lake
The Lady of the Lake is an enchantress in the Matter of Britain, the body of medieval literature and legend associated with King Arthur.
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Lancelot
Sir Lancelot du Lac (meaning Lancelot of the Lake), alternatively also written as Launcelot and other spellings, is one of the Knights of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend.
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Lancelot-Grail
The Lancelot-Grail, also known as the Prose Lancelot, the Vulgate Cycle, or the Pseudo-Map Cycle, is a major source of Arthurian legend written in French.
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur") is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table.
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Leodegrance
King Leodegrance, sometimes Leondegrance, Leodogran, or variations thereof, is the father of Queen Guinevere in Arthurian legend.
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List of literary cycles
Literary cycles are groups of stories grouped around common figures, often (though not necessarily) based on mythical figures or loosely on historic ones.
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Lynette and Lyonesse
In the Arthurian legend, Lynette (alternatively known as Linnet, Linette, Lynet, or Lyonet) is a haughty noble lady who travels to King Arthur's court seeking help for her beautiful sister Lyonesse (also Linesse, Lionesse, Lyonorr and other names), whose lands are besieged by the Red Knight of the Red Lands.
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Mabinogion
The Mabinogion are the earliest prose stories of the literature of Britain.
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Mark of Cornwall
Mark of Cornwall (Latin Marcus, Cornish Margh, Welsh March, Breton Marc'h) was a king of Kernow (Cornwall) in the early 6th century.
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Merlin
Merlin (Myrddin) is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in Arthurian legend and medieval Welsh poetry.
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Mordred
Mordred or Modred (Medrawt) is a character in the Arthurian legend, known as a notorious traitor who fought King Arthur at the Battle of Camlann, where he was killed and Arthur was fatally wounded.
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Morgause
Morgause, also known as Morgawse and other spellings and names, is a character in later Arthurian traditions.
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Narrative poetry
Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metered verse.
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Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; Modern French: ancien français) was the language spoken in Northern France from the 8th century to the 14th century.
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Pelleas
Pelleas, or Pellias, is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.
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Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics is an imprint published by Penguin Books, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House.
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Percival
Percival—or Perceval, Percivale, etc.—is one of King Arthur's legendary Knights of the Round Table.
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Poet laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions.
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Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Prime Minister.
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Poetry
Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
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Post-Vulgate Cycle
The Post-Vulgate Cycle is one of the major Old French prose cycles of Arthurian literature.
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Red Knight
Red Knight is a title borne by several characters in Arthurian legend.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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Samite
Samite was a luxurious and heavy silk fabric worn in the Middle Ages, of a twill-type weave, often including gold or silver thread.
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Siege Perilous
In Arthurian legend, the Siege Perilous (also known as The Perilous Seat) is a vacant seat at the Round Table reserved by Merlin for the knight who would one day be successful in the quest for the Holy Grail.
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Sir Balin
Sir Balin le Savage, also known as the Knight with the Two Swords, is a character in the Arthurian legend.
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The Lady of Shalott
"The Lady of Shalott" is a ballad by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), recounting The Lady's imprisonment in a tower, her escape and her eventual death.
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Theocritus
Theocritus (Θεόκριτος, Theokritos; fl. c. 270 BC), the creator of ancient Greek bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC.
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Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1415 – 14 March 1471) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur (originally titled, The Whole Book of King Arthur and His Noble Knights of the Round table).
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Three Welsh Romances
The Three Welsh Romances (Welsh: Y Tair Rhamant) are three Middle Welsh tales associated with the Mabinogion.
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Tristan
Tristan (Latin & Brythonic: Drustanus; Trystan), also known as Tristram, is a Cornish knight of the Round Table and the hero of the Arthurian Tristan and Iseult story.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Victorian Web
The Victorian Web is a hypertext project derived from hypermedia environments, Intermedia and Storyspace, that anticipated the World Wide Web.
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William Caxton
William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491) was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer.
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