Robert de Boron and the Prose Merlin
There are so many wonderful things about the internet: there was a time when a scholar had to order through ILL and wait for weeks or months before he or she could set eyes on such works as Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini or Robert de Boron's Prose Merlin . No more. from Prose Merlin Robert de Boron Full wrothe and angry was the Devell, whan that oure Lorde hadde ben in helle and had take oute Adam and Eve and other at his plesier. And whan the fendes sien that, they hadden right grete feer and gret merveile. Thei assembleden togedir and seiden: "What is he this thus us supprisith and distroyeth, in so moche that oure strengthes ne nought ellis that we have may nought withholde hym, nor again hym stonde in no diffence but that he doth all that hym lyketh? We ne trowed not that eny man myght be bore of woman but that he sholde ben oures; and he that thus us distroyeth, how is he born in whom we knewe non erthely delyte?" Than ansuerde anothir fende and seide
Steven,
ReplyDeleteHave you read much by the Brontes? I have read only the "must reads," the ones I guess most people have read--_Jane Eyre_ and _Wuthering Heights_.
Fred,
ReplyDeleteFrom the poems of Acton, Ellis, and Curer to The Professor, I believe I've read "the complete works." Were I to make recommendations myself, I'd confine my reading to Jane Eyre (I don't even care for Wuthering Heights as a novel--I do like it for some of its more interesting supernatural elements and for its place in the family oeuvre.)
But, to those interested in the novel of the period, there is much to be derived from reading Anne and Charlotte's lesser known work.
shalom,
Steven