On the Art of Writing · Character
Malory
Author of Le Morte d'Arthur discussed as a prose stylist.
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First appearance: lecture viii on the lineage of english literature i
Malory shows up with force in Lecture VI: On the Capital Difficulty of Prose. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Cited as an early prose writer whose work exemplifies simple melodious clarity, contrasted with later Elizabethan prose.
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