You need to read Spenser and Tennyson out loud. Find yourself a lucky girl and read her a book. TH White is stupid and who cares. The rest of it isn't in English anyhow, so read a modern translation.
TH White is fun. Le Morte d'Arthur was written in English as was Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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They weren't, though. They weren't written in our language. Those words don't sound or mean the same, to us. Read a translation. Middle English isn't the same thing as what me and you speak. Ok sure, it's important to learn it if you wanna get how many fart jokes Shakespeare made. But you're not getting that out of those books, if you try to just sit down with them.
>Geoffrey of Monmouth
My guy. No. I mean yes: that's where most of the "modern" myth comes from. And yes you should definitely read it. But it has none of the character. None of the flaws. None of the passion. It isn't an Arthurian Romance. It's just a false recounting and it sucks. It's the modern because it gives details and then we twist that shit into the spirit of the thing. But it has no soul.
Culhwch and Olwen, Le morte, and Gawain (Parzival doesn't count and can suck a fat dick).
I had a brilliant and depressing professor who taught me Arthurian Romance, the Greek Epics and Sherlock Holmes (which apparently was a class he had fought to get on the syllabus for years). Dude was the weirdest, angriest genius I've ever met.
Haveth ye a bump
thank thee
Why'd you post a guy with a portuguese shield in an Arthur thread, is this some conspiracy theory.
King Arthur was a Celt, the Celts came over from Iberia
Medieval/older
>Arthurian Romances by Chrétien de Troyes
>Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
>Parzival
Later versions/retellings
>The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
>Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson
>The Once and Future King by T. H. White
Bless the sire
Reading through older English is a pain. Do you recommend struggling through those or just reading the retellings?
They're not for everyone, yea. If you're having a hard time, read the retellings and then come back to the medieval ones.
You need to read Spenser and Tennyson out loud. Find yourself a lucky girl and read her a book. TH White is stupid and who cares. The rest of it isn't in English anyhow, so read a modern translation.
TH White is fun. Le Morte d'Arthur was written in English as was Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
They weren't, though. They weren't written in our language. Those words don't sound or mean the same, to us. Read a translation. Middle English isn't the same thing as what me and you speak. Ok sure, it's important to learn it if you wanna get how many fart jokes Shakespeare made. But you're not getting that out of those books, if you try to just sit down with them.
You have to at least read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the original middle english
To add to this, you have to read it aloud in a Yorkshire accent
>Yorkshire accent
like Arctic Monkeys?
Taliesin, Nennius, Mabinogion, Geoffrey of Monmouth
>Geoffrey of Monmouth
My guy. No. I mean yes: that's where most of the "modern" myth comes from. And yes you should definitely read it. But it has none of the character. None of the flaws. None of the passion. It isn't an Arthurian Romance. It's just a false recounting and it sucks. It's the modern because it gives details and then we twist that shit into the spirit of the thing. But it has no soul.
OP didn't ask for the best Arthurian literature, he asked for the "main Arthurian books".
You're right. Fair enough.
appreciate the info
Culhwch and Olwen, Le morte, and Gawain (Parzival doesn't count and can suck a fat dick).
I had a brilliant and depressing professor who taught me Arthurian Romance, the Greek Epics and Sherlock Holmes (which apparently was a class he had fought to get on the syllabus for years). Dude was the weirdest, angriest genius I've ever met.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone