An Introduction to English Medieval Literature

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Next in honor ' Edited from the Lincoln manuscript by Mary Macleod Banks (London, 1900). There is an earlier edition by E. Brock (London, 1865, Early English Text Society). The poem has been translated Into modem prose by Andrew Boyle, with an introduction by Lucy A.
Paton (London and New York, 1912, Everyman's Library, 634), and in part by Jessie L. Weston, Romance, Vision, and Satire (Boston and New York, 1912, page 137).
' It follows the earlier form seen hi Geoffrey of Monmouth's His- toria
... Begum Britannia (page 78), in both order and emphasis.
Chap. IV. ] LATER ENGLISH VERSE ROMANCES 143 is Cador. Taking his story mainly from the chronicles, this poet disregarded the later versions of the romances.
For he had no wish to be romantic. Out of line in his choice of incidents, he is still more out of line in treatment.
He tells his Arthur story, not romantically, but epically.
The richness of Arthm-'s court, the details of armor and fighting, are told specifically, with the same pleasure in them as appears in the Iliad or the Beowulf.


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