Sir Launfal sets out to seek the Holy Grail and scorns a leper at his castle gate, only to learn its true meaning years later. Lowell’s narrative poem, with its famous June prelude, appears here with the Harvard Commemoration Ode honouring the Civil War dead and other poems, plus an introduction, critical appreciations and poets’ tributes.
Long a staple of American schoolrooms, still moving for its humane message and its nature poetry. Download the free EPUB.