Medievalise

Censure is also laid upon what is termed the prevailing fashion of medievalising modern school-rooms, where only a small portion of the window is made to open partially, and the greater portion of the glass is cemented into grooves in the jambs and mullions.

The Monthly Review charged him with the style "of a sexton;" with outdoing even the Germans in tales of horror; with being full of platonic, metaphysical incomprehensibilities; they complained that his æsthetic lectures had had a pernicious effect; had held up the golden age of Pope to contempt, and contributed more than any cause to "medievalise" the taste of his countrymen.

It could have been from this poem that Geoffrey derived Avalon and the magical sword Caliburn, and Robert de Boron took his idea for the Holy Grail; both writers making attempts to medievalise ancient, mythological concepts.

Based partly on the Border ballad 'Gilpin Horner', Scott's poem is on the whole a medievalising concoction set in an Ossianic zone of lastness, fading and death.