Most of the following links lead to material on this website that deals with the study or presentation of myths — that is, ancient tales of gods or other kinds of superhuman beings. Examples of the large body of work that deals with an associated subject — Arthurian and other legends, rooted in the historical past — are also included. — Jacqueline Banerjee
Discussions
- Myth as Allegory (Section V of George Landow's The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin)
- The Goddess and the Child (Ch. 10 of Paul Sawyer's Ruskin's Poetic Argument: The Design of the Major Works)
- Olympian Lighting (Ch. 11 of Sawyer's book, also on Ruskin, see especially "Myth and Science"
- Myth and Lgend in Victorian Poetry
- Myth and the Time Spirit (in Matthew Arnold)
- Childhood as a Personal Myth in Autobiography
- Desiring Women: Myth, Love and Leighton’s Clytie
- Whose Dream Is It Anyway?: The Myth of The Toga
- The Fatal Hero: Diana, Deity of the Moon, as an Archetype of the Modern Hero in English Literature
- Myth, Pattern, and Paradox in Swinburne's "Hymn to Proserpine"
- Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain: cultural, artistic and literary explorations of a myth
- Making Myth Real: Hylas and the Nymphs
- The Legend of King Arthur: Pilgrimage, Place and the Pre-Raphaelites, edited by Natalie Rigby (review)
- "The Legend of King Arthur: A Pre-Raphaelite Love Story" (Notice of Exhibition at the William Morris Gallery, 2022-23)
- The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism, edited by Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner (review)
- The Arthurian Revival as an Answer to a Changing World
- Eneas Dallas on Campbell's Popular Tales of the West Highlands
Some Authors Who Drew on Myths and Legends
- Alfred Lord Tennyson (Idylls of the King)
- William Morris (The Earthly Paradise)
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- George Meredith (The Shaving of Shagpat)
- Oscar Wilde
- William Butler Yeats
Some Artists Who Chose Mythological and/or Legendary Subjects
- Some examples of mythology in Victorian painting
- The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- William Dyce
- Edward Burne-Jones
- G.F. Watts
- Edward Poynter
- Frederic Leighton
- Herbert James Draper
- Evelyn De Morgan
- John William Waterhouse
Created 15 January 2024