tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post3498364652283269480..comments2024-02-29T02:37:34.896-06:00Comments on Ivebeenreadinglately: Sylvia Townsend Warner on T. H. WhiteLevi Stahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-34221336111304890252014-11-10T21:26:01.299-06:002014-11-10T21:26:01.299-06:00Glad you enjoyed it. Warner's book is interest...Glad you enjoyed it. Warner's book is interesting on the ways that White drew on and adapted Malory and other sources (though Malory was definitely the backbone and most of the skeleton of White's Round Table). You may find today's post of interest: it's some thoughts about Lancelot from White's diary. I may end up doing something similar later this week with his thoughts (much less convincing and less well-formulated) about Guinevere, too. (Clearly Lancelot was a character in whom White saw parts of his own self; Guinevere wasn't.Levi Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-42869440064990516322014-11-10T00:44:55.304-06:002014-11-10T00:44:55.304-06:00I don't have anything intelligent to add here ...I don't have anything intelligent to add here except to say that I love the passage you cited, and I'm intrigued by the White bio. I've often wondered where his Lancelot and Pellinore and others came from (beyond Malory), but maybe I'm better off not knowing...Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.com