# Sir Galahad — Poetry character guide

> Sir Galahad in Poetry by George MacDonald.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Galahad

**First appearance:** 0005-a-book-of-dreams

## Snapshot

Arthurian knight whose purity makes him a vessel for spiritual longing, forever climbing toward a crown that may demand his fall.

## Who they are

Galahad moves through these poems as the knight who pants for a crown while the world's voices grow loud and love is lost in the strife of men. His heart is a flower with an open cup, trembling under stars, yet the soulless Cause and the gin of necessity threaten to catch his free spirit. He matters because his yearning for immortality—clasping worlds like an endless chain—dramatizes the book's central struggle between earthly striving and the truth that leaps to his arms with a joyful cry.

## In the story

### [The Sangreal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_8_se/chapters/the-sangreal)

The knight who seeks, finds, loses, and ultimately carries the Holy Grail.

## Links

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