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| | Sir Thomas Malory |
 | | The problem then is to find a Thomas Malory who was (a) a knight, (b) alive in the ninth year of King Edward IV (March 4, 1469 to March 3, 1480), and (c) who was, no longer living in July (or June) 1485. |
 | | The great charm of Malory's work lies in his style; stately, earnest and dignified, it has lent to the relations between Lancelot and Guenevere a character of truth and vitality in which the French original is wholly lacking. |
 | | Malory achieved a remarkable feat -- he took the Arthurian story in its worst and weakest form and he imparted to it a moral force and elevation which the cycle, even in its earlier and finer stage, had, save in the unique case of Von Eschenbach's Parzival, never possessed. |
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