Le Morte d'Arthur
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"Prose literature gives us Malory's Morte d'Arthur, in which are presented many ghastly situations taken from early ballad sources—the theft of the sword and silk from corpse in Chapel Perilous by Sir Launcelot, the ghost of Sir Gawaine, and the tomb-fiend seen by Sir Galahad—whilst other and cruder specimen were doubtless set forth in cheap and sensational "chapbooks" vulgarly hawked about and devoured by the ignorant."--"Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1927) by H. P. Lovecraft |
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Le Morte d'Arthur (1471) is book by sir Thomas Malory, a compilation of some French and English Arthurian chivalric romances.
The book contains some of Malory's own original material and retells the older stories in light of Malory's own views and interpretations.
First published in 1485 by William Caxton, Le Morte d'Arthur is perhaps the best-known work of English-language Arthurian literature today.
It was sold as a true history, though the story unfolded in a series of magical incidents and historical improbabilities.
Many modern Arthurian writers have used Malory as their source, including T. H. White for his popular The Once and Future King.
