| Author: | Wace | ISBN: | 1230000354820 |
| Publisher: | True North | Publication: | April 11, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Wace |
| ISBN: | 1230000354820 |
| Publisher: | True North |
| Publication: | April 11, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Wace is not to be regarded as one of the great contributors to our knowledge of Arthurian legend, but without a familiarity with his work, later French romance can scarcely be appreciated, so important is his place as a delicate transformer of the story, the harsher elements of which he veiled with the courtliness familiar to him, while he diffused throughout it the indefinable spirit of French romance; and this he did with the naive simplicity and grace that were his by birth and temperament.
Wace is not to be regarded as one of the great contributors to our knowledge of Arthurian legend, but without a familiarity with his work, later French romance can scarcely be appreciated, so important is his place as a delicate transformer of the story, the harsher elements of which he veiled with the courtliness familiar to him, while he diffused throughout it the indefinable spirit of French romance; and this he did with the naive simplicity and grace that were his by birth and temperament.
