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INTRODUCTION. i When Malory, pursuing his French originals in romance, arrived in turn at the Quest of the Holy Grail, and added it to the Morte cTArthur, he increased profoundly the total effect of his book. Far from spoiling the main Arthurian fable, as some critics would persuade us, the...

INTRODUCTION. Of Malory and his Morte dJArthur, and the wider field of romance into which the book leads us, so much has been abstrusely written in the last four or five years, that the simple critic, delighting in the thing for its own sake, had needs hesitate where so many of authority have...