prophet-bards

Updated: May 8, 2025

To the Welsh mind, the age has appeared one of old unhappy far-off things, unhappy, because of their tragic ending at Camlan; but grandiose. Titanic vague figures loom up: Arthur, the type of all hero-kings; Taliesin, type of all prophet-bards; Merlin, type of magicians.

Kenneth Morris - The Crest-Wave of Evolution : A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19