So Much Smoke
Tom Shippey: King Arthur, 20 December 2018
King Arthur: the Making of the Legend
by Nicholas Higham.
Yale, 380 pp., £25, October 2018,978 0 300 21092 7 Show More
by Nicholas Higham.
Yale, 380 pp., £25, October 2018,
“... of the language of the people they affected to rule, was his answer, and Duggan’s stepfather was Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, so perhaps he knew what he was talking about. Arthur and Badon creep into the end of Duggan’s novel sequence, though the ‘siege’ is presented as less than decisive. For these and other British writers, the image of Arthur ... ”