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The Holy Grail

A changing symbol

What exactly is the Holy Grail, that potent symbol alluded to by F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby, T. S. Eliot in The Waste Land, and by many other writers? Eleanor Parker explains where this myth came from and how the legend developed

Edexcel: Paper 3 Poetry Medieval Period, Section B

Ever since its first appearance in medieval poetry, the legend of the Holy Grail has proved to be an immensely powerful and adaptable symbol, one which has been imagined in many different forms and invested with a great diversity of meanings and interpretations. There is no one single legend of the Grail; even today, it is a symbol that is capable of producing new legends as it is reinterpreted.

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