• T.H. White; the genesis of "The Sword in the Stone"; from "The Witch in the Wood to "The Queen of Air and Darkness"; "The Ill-Made Knight"; "The Candle in the Wind"; comedy in "The Once and Future King"; Merlyn and "The Book of Merlyn"; the education of princes; White's historical imagination; White and Malory.

The Once and Future Kingis one of the works most frequently studied on literature courses in American universities, yet it has received astonishingly little criticism: Elisabeth Brewer...throws down a gauntlet on behalf of one of the most significant of mid-century authors. YEARBOOK OF ENGLISH STUDIES [Tom Shippey] [EB] comes to her subject as a distinguished medievalist. She is especially good at sorting out the relationship between the various texts of the novel and commenting on the significance of the multifarious revisions.

• T.H. White; the genesis of "The Sword in the Stone"; from "The Witch in the Wood to "The Queen of Air and Darkness"; "The Ill-Made Knight"; "The Candle in the Wind"; comedy in "The Once and Future King"; Merlyn and "The Book of Merlyn"; the education of princes; White's historical imagination; White and Malory.

The Once and Future Kingis one of the works most frequently studied on literature courses in American universities, yet it has received astonishingly little criticism: Elisabeth Brewer...throws down a gauntlet on behalf of one of the most significant of mid-century authors. YEARBOOK OF ENGLISH STUDIES [Tom Shippey] [EB] comes to her subject as a distinguished medievalist. She is especially good at sorting out the relationship between the various texts of the novel and commenting on the significance of the multifarious revisions.

• T.H. White; the genesis of "The Sword in the Stone"; from "The Witch in the Wood to "The Queen of Air and Darkness"; "The Ill-Made Knight"; "The Candle in the Wind"; comedy in "The Once and Future King"; Merlyn and "The Book of Merlyn"; the education of princes; White's historical imagination; White and Malory.

The Once and Future Kingis one of the works most frequently studied on literature courses in American universities, yet it has received astonishingly little criticism: Elisabeth Brewer...throws down a gauntlet on behalf of one of the most significant of mid-century authors. YEARBOOK OF ENGLISH STUDIES [Tom Shippey] [EB] comes to her subject as a distinguished medievalist. She is especially good at sorting out the relationship between the various texts of the novel and commenting on the significance of the multifarious revisions.