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How Lancelot Came to the Nunnery in Search of the Queen

S. Weir Mitchell

First published 1887
Type Poem

"The poem begins with Lancelot weeping at Gawain's tomb; he then goes in search of the queen, but when he finds her, she has retreated to a convent. She agrees to talk to him, bids him farewell, but refuses to grant him one last kiss." &mdash;Ann F. Howey and Stephen R. Reimer, <i>A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana, 1500&ndash;2000</i>

Author's note: "The poem ... is an attempt to render in blank verse and as literally as possible the most dramatic episode in the 'Arthur' of Sir Thomas Malory."

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1887 A Masque and Other Poems Houghton Mifflin Collection 44