The Holy Grail

From Tennyson's Idylls of the King

"'Now the Holy Thing is among us once again. So fast, brother, and pray. Tell the others to fast and pray, that perchance the vision may come to you too—and to them—and so the world may be healed.'"

This book is a novelisation of The Holy Grail, Book 8 of Tennyson's Idylls of the King. In this account of the Grail legend, Percivale, having retired to a monastery, recounts to a fellow monk his experience of the Grail quest. This prose version is intended to make the poem more accessible to the general reader and students of the poem, as well as being a good read in itself.