Someday a New Arthur

Someday a New Arthur

“Chasing Chaucer and Beowulf out of the Curriculum”

 

Spectator

 

Someday a new Merlin among the ruins

Will give a new Arthur a trove of hidden books:

Chaucer and Milton, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Keats

And maybe even long silent Malory

 

Someday a bold Arthur will command his scribes

To copy for the people the people’s words

Words long forbidden to them by narrow tyrants

Making words free to all, and letting in the sun 1

 

Someday a wise King Arthur will reign again

Within the greatest empire of all – the mind

 

 

1Tennyson, “The Coming of Arthur,” line 60

Original Poetry