Sir Thomas Malory (1395? -1471)
collected the romances
about King Arthur and arranged them in a series of stories in prose, intelligible to any
modern reader. The words in Malory's sentences have a beauty of movement, which
cannot escape unnoticed. The stories began with the birth of Arthur and how he
became the king, then related all the adventures of King Arthur and his noble knights
and ended in the death of these knights and of Arthur himself.
The work was published in 1485 by Caxton, the first English printer, at
Westminster (London), under the title of "Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur
and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table". The book was more widely known as
"Morte d'Arthur" (old French for "Death of Arthur").
This epic in twenty-one books reflects the evolution of feudal society, its ideals,
beliefs and tragedies. Malory's romance is the most complete English version of
stories about King Arthur.
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