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The Best Knight

Sallie Bridges

First published 1864
Type Poem

"This poem describes the healing of Sir Urre, giving details of Guenevere's thoughts as she waits for Lancelot to come forward, and Lancelot's prayers that allow him to perform the miracle." &mdash;Ann F. Howey and Stephen R. Reimer, <i>A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana, 1500&ndash;2000</i>

Retold from Malory. According to an author's note in Marble Isle, before being collected this poem appeared in the Home Journal (New York) "some time after [The Idylls of the King] came out," thus about 1860.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1864 Marble Isle, Legends of the Round Table, and Other Poems J. B. Lippincott Collection 184