I did my English honors thesis at UCLA on Robinson's Arthurian trilogy, three book length poems, Merlin, Lancelot, Tristam. I've got a copy in storage somewhere around here. For some reason, I was thinking of it this morning and thinking I should read the trilogy again.
At UCLA, I was very much under the influence of the work of Denis de Rougemont (Love In the Western World), which informed my thesis. But I also was getting my first look at Norman O. Brown in a course on American Intellectual History, and with the subsequent publication of Love's Body, Brown would become an even greater influence.
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