Galahad and the Grail by Malcom Guite

“What treasure has been hauled up from the ancient wells in this outing—the Arthur stories re-Christianized after so much balkanization, a myth for England proffered at an hour of dire need, but also the poetic epic resuscitated as a fit mode for history, for fantasy, for fun. This book teems with a vitality rarely found in contemporary work because it can’t be: its older than that, deeper than the green of upland hills, sweeter than festival-tide communion wine, but also rough, and brave, and strange as a stone circle, and older magic still.”