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From Ritual to Romance
From Ritual to Romance
Author: Jessie L. Weston
Landmark of anthropological and mythological scholarship explores Grail legend, uniting its folkloric and Christian elements by using printed texts to prove the parallels existing between each and every feature of the legend of the Holy Grail and the recorded symbolism of ancient Mystery cults. Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as major source for The...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780486296807
ISBN-10: 0486296806
Publication Date: 5/22/1997
Pages: 202
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Publisher: Dover Publications
Book Type: Paperback
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Best known as the book which inspired the basic symbolism of T.S.Eliot's The Waste Land, Jessie Weston's From Ritual To Romance is, it its own right, a classic of modern thought. An eminent medieval scholar, Miss Weston had the genius to apply the great insights of Sir J.G. Frazer's Golden Bough to the study of the mysterious legend of the Holy Grail. This conjunction of the discoveries of cultural anthropology and the literature of the medieval legend and romance has been rich in its fruits in later criticism, and in the work of a whole generation of poets and writers since 1920.


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