Robert Murry's Blog Arthurian Legends, Poetry & Publishing

Epic Poetry Books Like Homer, Alexander Pope, Keats, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley. Blogs about King Arthur, Camelot, Merlin and Knights of The Round Table

Aside from being an Arthurian poet, Robert Murray is also an opinionated and thought provoking essayist, and some of his shorter, persuasive articles will become available as time goes by. The first is a thrifty summary of all legends of King Arthur, though I regret that I did not mention Sir Gawain, for there is a wonderful, surviving medieval epic poem named Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, so that knight notorious for violating the laws of chivalry definitely deserved a mention, though Blog #1 is very close to comprehensive.

BLOG 1: Summation of the Legend of King Arthur

King Arthur was begotten by his father in an act of illusion in which King Uther Pendragon was transformed by the magician Merlin, into the likeness of Lady Egraine’s husband the Duke of Cornwall, who had sired a daughter by Egraine named Morgana la Faye. As payment for the necessary spell casting Merlin demanded the baby, named Arthur Pendragon. READ MORE