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Sir Thomas Malory

noun

English writer who published a translation of romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471). Synonyms: Malory, Thomas Malory.

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... briefly told is founded upon a touching legend connected with the romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Tennyson afterwards (in 1859) expanded it into the Idyll called "Elaine," wherein he followed more closely the original narrative as related by Sir Thomas Malory. ...

— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin

... in the case of a long series of poems—either of these had, it may be positively said, a general tone more suitable to the ancient feeling, and more consistent with the duty of a modern poet arranging for new ears the legends collected by Sir Thomas Malory, than the general tone of the present Idyls. Those first experiments, charged like a full sponge with the essence and volume of primitive legend, went to their purpose without retrospection or vacillation: each short tale, whether it laughed or moaned, promulgated ...

— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, No. 23, February, 1873, Vol. XI. • Various

Words linked to "Sir Thomas Malory" : writer, author, Thomas Malory