Cather Resources

I have found a few of Cather's short essays online, of which "The Novel Démeublé" and "Miss Jewett" are the most interesting for what they say about her artistic values.

I've had less luck in finding resources on the Fisher King myth, which you'll recall a friend of mine suggested that A Lost Lady parallels. There's an account of the king's relationship to the land at TVtropes; but otherwise, I've had to resort to Wikipedia for summaries of various takes on the legend of the old wounded (or impotent) lord whose decline parallels that of the realm, the innocent knight who is one of the few that can see the beauties of the Grail Castle, and the enticing seductress who is full of Life Force. But the glory of Wikipedia entries is that they have annotations and references at the bottom, which may lead a person to useful sources. So: here's the Wikipedia entries for various forms of the legend: Chrétien's Perceval and it sequels, Wolfram's Parzival, Wagner's Parsifal (perhaps the most elaborate), and, just a year before A Lost Lady, Eliot's "The Waste Land".