◆ The Legend of King Arthur, and the Knights of the Round Table is a reworking of Sir Thomas Malory's existing tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory combines unique material with existing French and English accounts about these individuals (e.g., the Gareth story). ✓ William Caxton originally published Le Morte d'Arthur in 1485, and it is now one of the most well-known works of Arthurian literature in English. Many later Arthurian writers, notably T. H. White in his popular The Once and Future King and Tennyson in The Idylls of the King, have cited Malory as their primary source. Sir Thomas Malory wrote the earliest English-language prose edition of the Arthurian tale in 1470, and William Caxton printed it in 1485.