Fill it with fish
Helen Cooper: The trail of the Grail, 6 June 2002
Parzival and the Stone from Heaven: A Grail Romance Retold for Our Time
by Lindsay Clarke.
HarperCollins, 239 pp., £14.99, September 2001,0 00 710813 3 Show More
by Lindsay Clarke.
HarperCollins, 239 pp., £14.99, September 2001,
Merlin and the Grail: ‘Joseph of Arimathea’, ‘Merlin’, ‘Perceval’ The Trilogy of Arthurian Romances Attributed to Robert de Boron
translated by Nigel Bryant.
Boydell and Brewer, 172 pp., £30, May 2001,0 85991 616 2 Show More
translated by Nigel Bryant.
Boydell and Brewer, 172 pp., £30, May 2001,
Le Livre du Graal. Tome I: ‘Joseph D’Arimathie’, ‘Merlin’, ‘Les Premiers Faits du Roi Arthur’
edited by Daniel Poirion and Philippe Walter.
Gallimard, 1993 pp., £50.95, April 2001,2 07 011342 6 Show More
edited by Daniel Poirion and Philippe Walter.
Gallimard, 1993 pp., £50.95, April 2001,
“... Yes, yes, Mr Burne-Jones,’ Benjamin Jowett is reputed to have said as he inspected the artist’s newly completed Arthurian murals in the Oxford Union, ‘but what does one do with the Grail once one has found it?’ This sounds almost as much the definitive question as the Grail was the definitive quest, but Jowett’s objection is more radically misconceived than any answer could be ... ”
