Le Morte Darthur: King Arthur and his noble Knights of the Round Table

We owe this our English Epic of Le Morte Darthur to Sir Thomas Malory, and to William Caxton the first English printer. Caxton''s Preface shows (what indeed would have been certain from his appeal to the ''Knights of England'' at the end of ''The Order of Chivalry'') that however strongly he, ''William Caxton, simple person,'' may have been urged to undertake the work by ''divers gentlemen of this...