Myth of the Month 19: The Holy Grail -- pt. 2
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Holy Grail and Its Importance in Modernism
When drafts of the poem were circulated, a lot of people questioned what were his sources for his symbolic understanding of the holy grail myth. In response, eliot actually added in a footnote to the poem where he explicitly cites a book by the scholar jesse l weston called from ritual to romance. He sort of credits her with providing this understanding of the real meaning of the grail legend. And i think that eliot's decision, that he felt he needed to cite this book by jesse l Weston, shows a number of things. For one thing, it shows the integration of the graels story into a modernist ethos which is very jungian and yung influenced
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