Selections from Malory (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

H. Wragg

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330677277 ISBN 13 : 9781330677278

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From the FOREWORD
In preparing these selections from the Morte D' Arthur for use in middle and senior forms, my aim has been to preserve as faithfully as possible the flavour of the original work, and at the same time to choose those stories which have proved the most inspiring to the poets ; in witness whereof Spenser's Faerie Queene, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Matthew Arnold's Tristram and Iseult, William Morris's Defence of Guenevere, Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse, and other poems may be consulted with advantage.
Such a compilation will serve its purpose merely as an introduction to the Arthurian cycle of legends. A comparative study of the extracts with some of the works mentioned above will, however, do more than this. Malory's prose is inimitable. Even these fragments, in comparison with the art and beauty of poetic form, by their unconscious naivety and vigorous directness of speech and vision will reveal traces of the simple grandeur which underlies the more elemental facts of human existence, as well as something of the very nature of poetic inspiration.
The selections have been made from Southey's reprint of Caxton's edition. The latter's loose arrangement into chapters has been discarded, and the subject-matter paragraphed as well as Malory's discursive style and the many necessary omissions will allow. The spelling, for obvious reasons, has been modernized, the punctuation revised, the grammar occasionally simplified. Obsolete words and phrases are explained in foot-notes. In one or two cases only, a word or phrase has been introduced or substituted, where sense or propriety seemed to require it.
The limitation of space that a school-text imposes is responsible for many and lengthy excisions, and for the exclusion of several well-known stories. Such omissions will be turned to their proper account if the reader's curiosity and interest impel him to consult a complete version for himself.
I tender my thanks to Mr. Theodore Watts-Dunton for allowing me to include extracts from Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse.
–H. W.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330677277
• ISBN 13: 9781330677278
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 161
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