ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Sir Thomas Malory was an English writer, the author of Le Morte d’Arthur, the classic English-language chronicle of the Arthurian legend, compiled and in most cases translated from French sources. The most popular version of Le Morte d’Arthur was published by the famed London printer William Caxton in 1485.

Detailed explanation-2: -Malory wrote Le Morte Darthur (The Death of Arthur) during 1469 while imprisoned for a series of violent crimes. Le Morte Darthur tells the famous legend of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere, the Knights of the Round Table and their quest for the mystical Holy Grail.

Detailed explanation-3: -Regarded as the most extensive and influential telling of Arthurian legend, Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur provides a complete history of the Arthurian world. His story includes not only the birth and death of Arthur himself, but also individual histories of some of the most prominent knights of the Round Table.

Detailed explanation-4: -Malory likely started work on it while he was in prison in the early 1450s and completed it by 1470. William Caxton may have named it Le Morte Darthur instead of Malory’s original title: The hoole booke of kyng Arthur & of his noble knyghtes of the rounde table.