The Forest Lovers (Annotated)

The Forest Lovers is Maurice Hewlett's richly textured medieval romance, a tale of passion, exile, disguise, and feudal violence set amid the symbolic depths of the woodland. Written in a luxuriant, archaizing prose, the novel belongs to the late-Victorian revival of chivalric and historical fiction, yet it tempers romance with psychological intensity and a strong sense of ritual, landscape, and m...