The Chances and Changes of Myth It is to be remarked that Lancelot and Guinevere were not of the kind of Dante and Beatrice. There is no celestial significance about Guinevere, or at least not visibly. … Dante, Lancelot, Tristan, are three ways of love. The tale of Tristan is the last great pagan myth. Dante put him (but not Lancelot) into hell;it was too severe. Swinburne served him well, and he and Iseult deserved Swinburne-- But peace they have that none may gain who live And rest about them that no love can give, And over them, while death and life shall be, The light and sound and darkness of the sea. What the rest does not know--deep let it be! --is the ship that runs over the sea, upon which stands the glowing son of Lancelot, with the salute to his father still on his lips, as he draws to the presence of the Sangreal. p.185 [Red King]
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