ARTHURIAN BRITAIN
THE WORKS OF SIR THOMAS MALORY, edited by Eugéne Vinaver; Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, English price 21/-, "THIS is a good, compact, well printed edition in the Oxford Standard Authors series. The famous prose epic is in the main an adaptation from French sources by a knight who, according to many sources, was little better than a blackguard, and who probably died in Newgate. As a publication it may be said to have been a Caxton first. It is "in prose eminently suited to the subject. Here are the elemental passions of the members of the Arthurian Court. The sudden quarrels, hatreds and reconciliations of the brave, the fair and the ignoble are portrayed. There are stories_ of love. jealousy, revenge, magnanimity, purity and unselfishness. Running through it is the quest for the Holy Grail; arising from the tradition that the Chalice or Grail which held the Body and Blood of our Lord at the First Supper was hidden in Arthurian Britain. There is in it a musical cadence and an illumination like that of the Italian primitive paintings. It should be on your
bookshelves.
F. J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 11
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191ARTHURIAN BRITAIN New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 11
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