KING ARTHUR OF CAMELOT: The History & The Myth of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (10 Books in One Volume) ebook

KING ARTHUR OF CAMELOT gathers ten books into a capacious survey of the Arthurian imagination, tracing the movement from chronicle and romance to Victorian poetry, antiquarian inquiry, and richly visual retelling. Its materials range from chivalric adventure and tragic love to genealogical history, mythic interpretation, and children's literature, revealing Camelot as both a medieval inheritance and a continuously remade cultural ideal. The prose romance tradition, the lyrical recasting of Arthurian loss, and the illustrated popular revival stand out as distinct yet mutually illuminating modes. The volume brings together foundational medieval authority with nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century poets, scholars, adaptors, and artists. Thomas Malory's shaping of the English Arthurian narrative provides an essential center, while Alfred Tennyson's poetic reimagining exemplifies the Victorian transformation of legend into moral and national meditation. Maude L. Radford, James Knowles, Richard Morris, T. W. Rolleston, and Howard Pyle extend this inheritance through scholarship, retelling, mythography, and visual storytelling. Collectively, their voices demonstrate how medievalism, Romantic revival, Victorian culture, and popular education repeatedly refashioned the Round Table. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this anthology offers an exceptional opportunity to compare sources, interpretations, and styles within one volume. It rewards close reading with a broad education in Arthurian tradition and invites dialogue between history, myth, literature, and art.