The once and future king book5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Through the medium of the Arthurian story he found his own voice, his unique contribution to keeping alive the flame of civilisation. White was writing in wartime England, a country increasingly absorbed by a need to find an antidote to war. White's story of Arthur begins with his `enfances', set in an imaginary medieval England, but it is far removed from the conventional historical novel. White's `footnote to Malory' (his own phrase) resulted in the last major retelling of the story based on Malory's Morte Darthur, and Elisabeth Brewer explores the literary context of White's finest work as wellas considering his aims and achievement in writing it. Is it for children, or for adults? Is it fantasy or a psychological novel? In its great range, it encompasses poetry and farce, comedy and tragedy -and sudden flights of schoolboy humour. The Once and Future King defies classification. ![]()
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