T.H. White's The Once and Future King
The Once and Future King defies classification. 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. 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 well as considering his aims and achievement in writing...
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A critical study of T.H. White's classic Arthurian tetralogy.
AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations1T. H. White12The Genesis of The Sword in the Stone173From The Witch in the Wood to The Queen of Air and Darkness484The Ill-Made Knight765The Candle in the Wind1046Comedy in The Once and Future King1277Merlyn and The Book of Merlyn1418The Education of Princes1659White's Historical Imagination18810White and Malory207Bibliography227Index231
