ARRIAN'S HISTORY OF ALEXANDER'S EXPEDITION.... By John Rooke, Arrian's Indian-History.... 2 v. 1729.
ARTHOUR AND MERLIN. Ed. Turnbull, Abbotsford Club, 1838.
Ed. Wheatley. E.E.T.S., 1869-99.
ARTHUR, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN. A Book of the Noble Hystoryes of Kynge Arthur, and of Certeyn of his knyghtes, reduced into Englysshe by Syr Thomas Malory, Kynght and by me William Caxton. 1485.
Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King' and Arnold's 'Tristram and Iseult' are taken from the above legends.
(Also noticed under Anglo-Saxon collections.)
'In 1155 the Jersey Norman, Robert Wace, converts and amplifies Geoffrey's work into the French romance "Brut d'Engleterre" or "Geste des Bretons", introducing for the first time the Table Round. This again is developed in English verse by Layamon in his "Brut" of 1205. From various sources and by various hands, the Arthurian legends are increased. Milton for a time was strongly attached to this subject, and in his "Epitaphium Damonis" he shows the hold which the Arthurian legends had taken upon him, and he explicitly proposed to make Arthur and the British knights the subject of an epic'.
ARTHUR. 14th century.
Ed. Furnivall, E.E.T.S., 1864.