Finished reading: Galahad and the Grail Merlin’s Isle by Malcolm Guite 📚. One of my favorite parts was the final section about the history of the Arthurian legend and the inspiration for the book.

As a student at Cambridge I rediscovered these stories in their original sources and became aware of how so many modern versions of them seemed to marginalise or even erase the deep Christian impulse that had formed their original telling, and as a poet I longed to restore that lost element in the hope that a new telling might baptise the imagination of the growing generation brought up in a secular world, trapped in “the immanent frame” and deprived of their inheritance in the gospel.

Unsurprisingly, he partially credits Martin Shaw for being a co-conspirator in the quest to break us out of the immanent frame and at the risk of being trite, usher us to a kind of re-enchantment.