Lowell's "The Vision of Sir Launfal" A Study and Interpretation

Detroit, MI: Lyman A. Skinner. Very Good. 1914. 2nd Edition. Stapled wraps. This is a small format booklet (approx. 6" by 4"). The booklet has cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The spine joints of both front and rear covers have noticeable toning. There is a light bump to the bottom spine end of the book covers. The text pages are generally clean and bright. "According to the mythology of the Romancers, the San Greal, or Holy Grail, was the cup out of which Jesus partook of the last supper with his disciples. It was brought into England by Joseph of Arimathea, and remained there, an object of pilgrimage and adoration, for many years in the keeping of his lineal descendants. It was incumbent upon those who had charge of it to be chaste in thought, word, and deed; but one of the keepers having broken this condition, the Holy Grail disappeared. From that time it was a favorite enterprise of the knights of Arthur's court to go in search of it. Sir Galahad was at last successful in finding it, as may be read in the seventeenth book of the Romance of King Arthur. Tennyson has made Sir Galahad the subject of one of the most exquisite of his poems." (University of Rochester, UK - Camelot Project ) .