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From: The Book of Merlyn[(essay date 1977) In the following essay, Warner describes how White composed the five eventual books that comprised White's complete vision of the Arthurian cycle in The Once and Future King.] The dream, like the one...
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From: Arthuriana[(essay date summer 2002) In the following essay, Worthington traces White's deliberate evolution of The Once and Future King from its children-oriented beginnings in The Sword in the Stone to the more adult progressions...
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From: Fantasy: The Liberation of Imagination[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Mathews describes The Once and Future King as a work of nonlinear mythic time travel, noting that White "skillfully employs the novel--and all the techniques of modern...
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From: Arthuriana[(essay date fall 2001) In the following essay, Lupack studies the unique presentation of age progression as shown in the lives of Arthur, Lancelot, Guenever, and Merlyn in The Once and Future King.] T. H. White's The...
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From: Quondam et Futurus[(essay date spring 1992) In the following essay, Adderley highlights the importance of education on the development of the main protagonists in the first three books of The Once and Future King.] One of the major...
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From: Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Sly suggests that White's first book of The Once and Future King,The Sword in the Stone, essentially offers a male worldview of the natural world that comes into conflict with...
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From: Approaches to Teaching the Arthurian Tradition[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Whitaker offers an assessment of available texts suitable for children studying the Arthurian tradition.] Ever since the Middle Ages, Arthurian literature has been accessible...
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From: Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Kinzey offers a critical summary of The Once and Future King, describing how White's personal history influenced its creation.] About the Author Terence Hanbury White was...
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From: The Figure of Merlin in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Hanks offers a critical reading of the figure of Merlyn in the first two books of White's The Once and Future King, noting that the magician evolves from the playful figure of...
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From: Kenyon Review[(essay date spring 1962) In the following essay, Dunn contrasts Charles Williams's Arthurian poetry with White's The Once and Future King, emphasizing White's bleak, yet humorous perspective and Williams's more...
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From: New Statesman[(essay date 12 July 1958) In the following essay, Lewis suggests that White's The Once and Future King is an enduring novel that transcends its early status as a juvenile work.] In a rather arch verse introduction to...
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From: Presenting Young Adult Fantasy Fiction[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, MacRae offers a thorough bio-critical examination of Yolen's canon, providing particular insight into the way she utilizes facets from her own life to infuse her books with...
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From: T. H. White and the Matter of Britain: A Literary Overview[(essay date 1988) In the following essay, Kellman discusses the influence of Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur on White's The Once and Future King and examines the revisions White made to the first two books of his...