And that would be the end of the story—betrayal, infidelity, defeat, death—except that this is Charles Williams’s story. and I plucked a fish from a stream that flowed to the sea: Arthur’s coronation follows the battle, in a heraldic poem filled with the blazing colors and beasts of the knights’ and ladies’ coats-of-arms. Thanks! Various helpful commentators like Gisbert Kranz and Jos Vanachter have taken careful account of those who have gone before them, so there can often be a certain traditional and even to some extent ‘Variorum’ character to commentaries already. – “Kindle” edition)! 14: TALIESSIN IN THE SCHOOL OF THE POETS . Like everything Williams wrote, they seem to pull you into another place and the walls between the two worlds dissolve. Merlin then sees the Dolorous Blow: the wicked spear-thrust by which Balan wounded King Pelles, sealing Camelot’s doom. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. ( Log Out /  From The Region of the Summer Stars] 163-244. Taliessin through Loegres With the governments throughout the world now seeking to impose a foreign 'morality' on it's Christian subjects, I was reminded of the Prelude to Williams 'Taliessin' poems, and in particular the first two lines of 'Prelude II'. We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Their child would be Galahad, the pure knight, the High Prince, the achiever of the Grail. Understanding them is another matter. Because next up, it’s the story of Lancelot and Guinevere. for you? LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers Thanks to amazon.co.uk, I’ve just learned of the existence of Jay A. Mihal, The Arthurian poems of Charles Williams: A critical annotated edition (U.S.N.A. And then the cycle skips ahead again, to the end, or nearly the end, of the story. The time in between his birth and his coming is telescoped into that one poem of Palomides’ lean years alone. Auden, who wrote a kind of hommage to him on his death. She gave her life’s blood to save another woman’s life, in the ultimate act of Exchange. Logres was withdrawn to Carbonek; it became Britain. You don’t know anything about him when you meet him, except that he is returning to “Logres” (England/Britain as the center of God’s kingdom on earth). My first piece of advice is: Do NOT follow C. S. Lewis’s recommended reading order. The poetry is technically virtuosic, musically beautiful, and conceptually complex. "Taliessin through Logres" and "The Region of the Summer Stars" are two collections of poems written by Charles Williams and based on the Arthurian legend. This makes me also reflect that although they knew each other before Taliessin through Logres came out, I can’t recall any evidence of Williams sharing drafts of any of these with Lewis. are names of people places and things which appear in the two collections of Arthurian poems written by Charles Williams (Taliessin through Logresand The Region of Summer Stars). 1974 Taliessin Through Logres, the Region of the Summer Stars by Charles Williams and Arthurian Torso by Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis. Lewis couldn't keep these two cycles from going out of print, but this Eerdmans volume, scarce as it is, gives credence to Williams' self-penned epitaph, "Poet, Under the Mercy. Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2016. | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 5: “Mount Badon.” — by David Llewellyn Dodds | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 6: “The Crowning of Arthur.” — by Charles Franklyn Beach | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 7: “Taliessin’s Song of the Unicorn.” — by Jennifer Raimundo | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 8: “Bors to Elayne: the Fish of Broceliande.” — by Robert Ghrist | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 9: “Taliessin in the School of the Poets.” — by Grevel Lindop | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 10: “Taliessin on the Death of Virgil.” — by Andrew Stirling MacDonald | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 15a: “The Ascent of the Spear” — by Ben Utter | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 11: “The Coming of Palomides.” — by Charles Huttar | The Oddest Inkling, Arthuriana: Arthur, Inklings, and the Attraction of Logres « Letters from the Edge of Elfland, TTL 12: “Lamorack & the Queen Morgause of Orkney.” — by Robert Ghrist | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 13: “Bors to Elyane: On the King’s Coins” — by Andrew Stirling MacDonald | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 14: “The Star of Percivale” — Jennifer Raimundo | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 15b: “The Ascent of the Spear.” — by Yannick Imbert | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 16: “The Sister of Percivale.” — by Elise Erikson Barrett | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 17: “The Son of Lancelot.” — by Brenton D. G. Dickieson | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 20: “The Departure of Merlin.” — by David Russell Mosley | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 19: “The Coming of Galahad” — Jennifer Raimundo | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 23: “The Last Voyage” — David Llewellyn Dodds | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 21: “Palomides before His Christening.” — by Charles Huttar | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 22: “Percivale at Carbonek” — David Llewellyn Dodds | The Oddest Inkling, TTL 24: “Taliessin at Lancelot’s Mass.” — by David Russell Mosley | The Oddest Inkling, ‘Taliessin Through Logres’ – Charles Williams {BookTalk} | A Tolkienist's Perspective, Interview with Sørina Higgins about Charles Williams. A golden age of Camelot ensues, but little by little it is brought to ruin by the frailties of its king and his knights. This suggests that Arthur answered his question wrongly, setting himself above the kingdom and refusing to serve. Sorina’s introduction will really help the first time reader. Today’s post is by Elise Erikson Barrett. I think they are sailing to Sarras, the land of the Trinity. He watches the battle, waiting for the precise moment to strike. Then return for a second reading. Don’t know what-all illustrations and detailed descriptions Williams knew (an interesting matter for further study! No, no. During this Mass, several substitutions take place. That, then, is the “plot” of Taliessin through Logres. from you? It would be great if he undertook a commentary himself! Following on the Arthur’s military victory, the establishment of his kingdom, and the display of domestic love in action at the heart of the kingdom, Taliessin goes to visit the School of the Poets. It is densely packed with layers of symbolism and rich imagery that are not initially easy to understand, but that scintillate with ever greater brilliance upon repeated readings. Then there’s a short, ambiguous moment of Love, but I’m not quite sure whether it’s Gone Right or Gone Wrong. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Meanwhile, do let me know how your first (or second, third, or thousandth) reading of Taliessin through Logres goes! Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2003, "The cone's shadow of earth fell into space, and into, other than space, the third heaven. Pingback: ‘Taliessin Through Logres’ – Charles Williams {BookTalk} | A Tolkienist's Perspective. Download full Taliessin Through Logres Book or read online anytime anywhere, Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle. Tolkien, weaves his own version of the legends of King Arthur with his imaginative accounts of Byzantium and Christendom. Anyway, to get back to the story. Taliessin Through Logres book. Back in Camelot, Lamorack talks to Merlin, who sees a vision of Morgause and her brother Arthur in incest, and from their evil union will come a child, “the web of all our doom,” Mordred. Please try again. Doubly unfaithful to his vows to Arthur as knight and to Guinevere as courtly lover, he slept with Helayne. It’s good to know, not just that somebody has had a look at Jay Mihal’s work, but someone as knowledgeable and thoughtful a reader of Williams’s poetry as Stephen Barber! Taliessin through Logres is designed to reward multiple readings. to dart and drive up the channel of your arm? If Owen Barfield has been called the First and Last Inkling, Charles Williams has been very aptly called the Third Inkling – and the Oddest Inkling. It leads him to a stony cave, where he lies, lonely, skeletal, longing for bones to lie down beside his bones for company. Lamorack, Knight of the Table, brother of Sir Percivale, travels north and sees the stone sculptures carven on the coasts of the Orkney Islands. He was admired by such prominent poetic luminaries as W.H. Taliessin through Logres, together with its sequel The Region of the Summer Stars, are the works of Williams I admire the most and come back to most often. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. OK? Create free account to access unlimited books, fast download and ads free! Now they seem – mostly – lucid. Does anyone know? Yet I’ll wager you’re going to love it. Just take them as they were designed. Then he speaks a poem for them, presumably as an example of great verse: “Taliessin on the Death of Virgil.” What the first “Bors to Elayne” poem was for Romantic Theology, this poem is for The Way of Exchange. He sails away, leaving all things apparently in order. This is where the “gynocomorphical” map comes in handy: Taliessin pictures the Empire as a female body, and he often refers to provinces (or “themes”) of the Empire by their anatomical correspondences. Light wear to cover, bookseller's marks. This post is meant especially for those of you who have never read Charles Williams’s Taliessin through Logres, who have tried to read it but given up, or who have read it but felt that you didn’t really grasp it very well. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! I have long wondered about doing so myself. He rides home from court to visit his wife, and gives her a “fish” that he has “plucked” out of Taliessin’s song, and it swims up her veins and through her body, which he worships. Without reading C.S.Lewis' commentary in Arthurian Torso (also in this volume)I wouldn't know what he meant, but these lines have something most poetry doesn't; they sound like an incantation, pulsing with power and vision. Lamorack killed in an ambush. No, it is discussed behind the scenes, as it were, by Taliessin, Gareth, and a slave-girl—out among the kitchen-waste and sewage-pits of the castle. Clicking Professor Lenski’s name leads to a lot of other interesting and quite probably relevant papers, while it is also worthwhile looking at his Yale University page for some equally interesting looking books! That's the effect of hearing these poems. Lewis and J.R.R. And thus, after the arrival of Galahad and the revelation of the Grail, Merlin departs. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. It is the Affirmative Way in action. Taliessin's return to Logres The seas were left behind; in a harbour of Logres lightly I came to land under a roaring wind. He plays the harp; he’s a poet; he’s bringing all of these united contraries with him into Arthur’s camp. Talk about awkward. Then you can go on to a third reading, in which you can start to move deeper, through the layers, tracing the anatomical imagery, searching for the working-out of CW’s major themes, learning the significance of recurrent phrases and images. Brought to nothing, he is humbled and decides to submit to baptism. Palomides, a Muslim, travels from Iran to become a Knight of the Round Table. ( Log Out /  Numerous critics have pointed out that they're rather hard to understand; C.S. A forest of the creatures: was it of you? Taliessin Through Logres and The Region of Summer Stars comprise Charles Williams’ retelling of the Arthurian story from the point of view of the court poet. Taliessin tells Arthur all about the Emperor’s vision for his kingdom, and then Merlin meets Arthur on the road and tells him to build Camelot. no? King Mark is oblivious; Iseult has eyes only for Tristram; and Palomides sings her a love song about her arm’s perfect geometry. It’s sexual, passionate, shocking, and powerful. (I have not done any sample collations, but note that customer T. Cooke in reviewing the latter writes “the digitisations haven’t been proofread as accurately as they might have been – annoying commas midsentence that definitely don’t occur in the original, for instance.”). Dr. Jules Gomes just drew my attention to this 2011 article, which looks likely to give some interesting background to the Empire which Charles Williams is imaginatively invoking in his Arthurian retelling: https://www.academia.edu/2489952/Constantine_and_Slavery_Libertas_and_the_Fusion_of_Roman_and_Christian_Values. shall I drop the fish in your hand? The most helpful preparation for understanding his view of the Original Sin is found in He Came Down from Heaven, a highly idiosyncratic theological work. Mystical, Supernatural Style Williams's first Grail poetry, Taliessin through Logres (1938), demonstrates his mystical interests. The index to … Revel in the phonoaesthetics and the lavish visual descriptions. Read Taliessin through Logres straight through from beginning to end, as Charles Williams designed it. In the third heaven the stones of the waste glimmered like summer stars." Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Its one long sentence unwinds with speed and grace, weaving all of CW’s major themes into one consistent setting, one contained metaphor. Click Get Books and find your favorite books in the online library. It also serves as an introduction to the upcoming series in which various guest bloggers will write their way through all 24 poems in the volume. Merlin gallops away, and brings the baby safe to Blanchfleur, who is a nun at Almesbury. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. back they rang to sing in Byzantium; Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2020. dialects of the world sprang in Byzantium; It seems that the political kingdom of Logres has failed, but the spiritual kingdom of the Grail lives on in the prayers of those few who remain, and in the company of all the co-inherent living and dead. It is a unique handling, a fresh vision, of an old subject-matter which has been almost completely neglected in English literature." Contents. But first, Taliessin, court poet, sings his debut: his Song of the Unicorn. And then let it sit for while. Alongside its partner "The Region of the Summer Stars", it stands as one of the most profound and challenging of Williams's works -- and one of the most important to understanding him fully. Don’t get hung up over the exact historical details, especially because CW has conflated 1000 years of European history down into the span of Arthur’s lifetime, and also erased the East-West schism of the Church, for his own theological purposes. I do. But the reader doesn’t get to watch that powerful scene first-hand. When the last vestiges of Roman decadence are vanquished, Arthur becomes king. But equally welcome would be something (more) comprehensive in that line, or something fresh and original – as is often found in the series here! Lancelot loses the wolf-shape and is tended in Carbonek. Only after giving life to verse should you start setting up banks. from Taliessin Through Logres and Region of the Summer Stars. Taliessin through Logres. It is densely packed with layers of symbolism and rich imagery that are not initially easy to understand, but that scintillate with ever greater brilliance upon repeated readings. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Chapter II, “The Myth of the Alteration in Knowledge,” presents a new reading of chapter 3 of Genesis. Charles Williams is a poet first and a theologian second -- I found his "Arthurian Torso" much less useful than the poems themselves for understanding his thought. He sees the Grail quest, and the Islamic invasions. At his coming, the Grail is manifested in Camelot. Or, rather, the story of Lancelot and Helayne. It is densely packed with layers of symbolism and rich imagery that are not initially easy to understand, but that scintillate with ever greater brilliance upon repeated readings. | The Oddest Inkling, Pingback: TTL 5: “Mount Badon.” — by David Llewellyn Dodds | The Oddest Inkling. The fish is love, certainly, but it is also myth, truth, and meaning. Don’t worry about all the symbolism, the layers of meaning, the occult references, and the impenetrable idiomatic phrases. Thank you so much! Virgil finds the word, Taliessin sees the enemy’s weak point, and he charges. He also sees Queen Morgause, the living image of the cold stone ancestors, and his heart is bruised and broken on her hardness. 1982 The Arthurian Poems of Charles Williams: Taliessin Through Logres and The Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. This is an amazing collection of mythical modernist poetry, a history of Arthuriana, and a commentary. Tag Archives: Taliessin Through Logres “Charles Williams’s Arthurian Treasury” by Grevel Lindop. Taliessin Through Logres. Lewis penned his significant commentary in an effort to make Williams' last (and unfinished) poems accessible to a wider audience. He also had a grand vision of the whole Empire working together, like one great body, under the Emperor’s command. of Arthur’s death and the overthrow of Mordred. Dindan has been murdered by Agravaine. A slave girl hears Taliessin singing and falls in love with him. He determines to chase it, this “questing beast,” this “division stretched between / the queen’s identity and the queen,” and make something of himself before he will submit to conversion and baptism. He was looking for purely chronological plot elements, thinking to simplify the reading for a newcomer, but I think his suggested reading order ruins the poems. Form in an individual poem (using “Taliessin’s Song of the Unicorn) and in an entire cycle is examined. Dr. Bloomfield’s page at the University of Nottingham gives more information about him. Her substitution is also somehow responsible for Arthur’s exchange. I sat clutching a cup of tea, feet soaked and chilled, drawn into this strange, dangerous, mysterious world where a woman might submit to being impaled by the mythical beast. By Easter, he is well and can ride for Camelot. Order begins to take shape and to set up its patterns in Logres. He may have been drawn to the tragedy of Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, but more central was the story of the Grail and the quest to establish God's kingdom, orderly and … There is already a great introduction to the series by Sørina, and Crystal Hurd has covered Prelude. The second time through Charles Williams' masterpiece Taliessin Through Logres, I find that I experience the poems as more difficult than I did the first time, in 2013. Taliessin has not only been appointed King’s poet; he’s also the King’s Captain of the Horse—the cavalry, the mounted troops. Then we see the first of the Loves Gone Wrong. I’m not sure whether to say that Lancelot’s celebration of the Eucharist heals all things, but the poem ends in joy and the prayers of Taliessin’s Company. The last of the corrupt kings in London dies, and Arthur begins his work. And then… he sees Lancelot waking, realizing what he has done—and running mad, turning into a wolf, living in a nine-months nightmare, “a delirium of lycanthropy.” Lancelot, crazy, hungry, desires nothing for those nine months but to devour his own son. Taliessin at Canterbury met him with the news Over at Quite Irregular, Jem Bloomfield has written a post about Taliessin through Logres. Lancelot (Lancelot, who is not a priest, and who is arguably the author of much of the horror) performs a Mass. Sir Bors—image of Love Gone Right, remember—reports to his wife the conversations the economic committee had about the minting of coins. Lewis, surprisingly, missed the poetry, narrative, logical, and spiritual structure of this book in his commentary in Arthurian Torso. Percivale, Bors, and Galahad come to Carbonek to achieve the Grail. It is good to think that someone has not only sensibly taken advantage of Williams largely emerging from copyright to reprint these books inexpensively in a new medium (Kindle/eBook), and that, fairly swiftly – three of the four within a year of the end of copyright – but that the Bloomfield’s have taken further trouble over them (however tantalizing it is that the ‘Looker inside’ is not given a taste of any of the editorial annotations)! Click to read more about Taliessin through Logres, The Region of the Summer Stars, and Arthurian Torso by Charles Williams. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. – or a new, judicious mixture. No, no. On this time through, you can read for Story. It is my favorite collection of poetry, and in my opinion Charles Williams was an incredible writer and poet. Can any more savvy or knowledgeable person tell me (us?) ), “Read Taliessin through Logres straight through from beginning to end, as Charles Williams designed it” – which is, in fact, also experiencing it in the only way Lewis could have when it came out in 1938, and, indeed, until some other poems came out one at a time in periodicals and then were given ‘final form’ together with still others in The Region of the Summer Stars. ), but this gives some striking matter to compare with references in the poetry! As they sail, Galahad sings a litany for all the kingdom’s losses—and in this way the reader learns that Logres has been destroyed. Also, that there are apparently annotated editions of Taliessin through Logres and The Region of the Summer Stars published by Erewash Press with the editor listed as Sheenagh Bloomfield whose name is also connected with books by Jem Bloomfield who is described as “Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Nottingham” and elsewhere as having “studied at Oxford before earning his PhD from the University of Exeter” in a note which also provides his blog address. Modern Welsh poet John Davies of Denbighshire (1841–1894) took the bardic name of Taliesin Hiraethog. I think it helps to have read his theological works first and to be fairly well read on Arthurian myths, but an some level any Christian should hear "the song of another" Williams bore. Change ). There was a problem loading your book clubs. Palomides is baptized, then goes to study Kabbalah, learning of the hard way of endurance God has granted him, and then he dies. 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