Subject: Re: "Lancelot Andrews Lamar"
From: Carroll (a1irish@airmail.net)
Date: Fri Jun 04 1999 - 00:16:46 EDT
Ben,
Lance's name signifies "the dried voices" of a hollow man that T.S.
Eliot speaks of, and as you noted, Lancelot Andrewes Lamar was named by
his father for Lancelot Andrewes, the same Anglican divine whom T. S.
Eliot admired and who, as John F. Desmond points out, "exerted profound
influence on his [Eliot's] poetry," especially on "Gerontion." Check out
Desmond's article which appears on his book At the Crossroads.
Linda Carroll
Benjamin Elias wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I am a university student reading Percy's works for the first time. My
> literature instructor pointed out that in the book Lancelot, the name of the
> protagonist is linked to Lancelot du Lac. I recently found a sentence which
> reveals that his name also mirrors that of "Lancelot Andrews Lamar . . . the
> great Anglican divine." Who is this divine and what is his connection to
> Lance?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben Elias
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