Books Like Merlin Enthralled by Richard Wilbur | Suggested Reading

This Study Guide consists of approximately 27 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Merlin Enthralled.

Books Like Merlin Enthralled by Richard Wilbur | Suggested Reading

This Study Guide consists of approximately 27 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Merlin Enthralled.
This section contains 355 words
(approx. 1 page at 400 words per page)
Buy the Merlin Enthralled Study Guide

This poem, originally from the 1956 collection Things of This World, is included in Richard Wilbur's New and Collected Poems, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1988.

The story of Merlin's life, from childhood to death, is the subject of a series by popular novelist Mary Stewart: The Crystal Cave (1970), The Hollow Hills (1973), The Last Enchantment (1979), and The Wicked Day (1983).

Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote several books of poetry about the legends of King Arthur, including the book-length poem Idylls of the King. This 1885 book includes "Merlin and Vivien," a version of the story told in "Merlin Enthralled."

One of the most readable recent versions of the Arthurian legend was written by author John Steinbeck, who based his book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976) on the writings of fifteenth-century English scholar Sir Thomas Malory.

Over the course of his...

(read more)

This section contains 355 words
(approx. 1 page at 400 words per page)
Buy the Merlin Enthralled Study Guide
Copyrights
Gale
Merlin Enthralled from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.