She specialises in medieval and early modern literature and the afterlives of medieval texts in later literature. He died in 1964 in Greece, during the return journey from a lecture tour of the United States.Įlizabeth Elliott is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Aberdeen. In 1951, he published The Goshawk, which details his attempts to train a hawk using the falconry methods of the Middle Ages. Although The Once and Future King is his most famous novel, he was a prolific writer, with 20 other books to his name. Of White’s novel, Burgess writes: ‘This is not remote and fabulous history: the lesson of the breaking of the Round Table is for our time.’ Beginning with the childhood of Arthur in the first book, The Sword in the Stone, White’s version of the familiar stories are complex examinations of leadership, nobility, romance and war.

Published in 1958, The Once and Future King adapts the famous stories of King Arthur and his Round Table.

This is the final episode of series 2, and our guest Elizabeth Elliott is helping us explore Camelot in The Once and Future King by T.H. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess’s list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fiction. In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939.

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