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These early works of and Sappho , Shakespeare and Webster , Norse Saga and French medieval lyric. They exhibit a thoroughly aristocratic sensibility; heroes and villains alike maintain an Olympian indifference to convention. The Zimiamvia books were not conceived as a trilogy but as part of a larger work left incomplete by Eddison's death. In fact, ''The Mezentian Gate'' itself is unfinished, though Eddison provided summaries of the missing chapters shortly before his death. Some additional material from this book was published for the first time in the volume ''Zimiamvia: a Trilogy'' (1992). Eddison wrote three other books: ''Poems, Letters, and Memories of Philip Sidney Nairn'' (1916), '' Styrbiorn The Strong '' (1926) and ''Egil's Saga'' (1930). The first was his tribute to a Trinity College friend who died in his youth. The other two relate to the saga literature; the first is a retelling of a story alluded to in ''Eyrbyggja Saga'' and ''Heimskringla'', while the second is a direct translation from the Iceland ic, supplemented with extensive notes. BIBLIOGRAPHY Fantasies
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