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Title: Weak Addition to the Dragonlance Saga
Review: Michael Williams is the poet laureate of the Dragonlance saga. But that does not mean he can write a novel. There is a lot of fluff here as Williams brings in a good deal of Arthurian imagery to craft a dull story about Sturm Brightblade that goes nowhere and does nothing to add to the saga. Williams is a well read writer. Anyone who reads his notes in the annotated versions of the Chronicles and Legends can see that he knows Yeats and Rossetti very well. Williams should know that not every poet could transcend poetry (as anyone who ever read the plays John Keats wrote can attest!) and his rhetorical gifts can only go so far. There are some interesting ideas in "The Oath and the Measure" but this remains a weak entry in the Dragonlance books and should be avoided as much as possible.
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