Pictures from English Literature (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Pictures From English Literature

The first picture that I want to show you was not the work of a single artist. It was begun, more than six hundred years ago, by a Welsh monk, called Geoffrey of Monmouth. In later times, other artists made many additions to it, some of which greatly increased its beauty. At length, the great painter, Alfred Tennyson, retouched the whole picture, giving it its present rich coloring and perfect finish; so that it is numbered to-day among the most fascinating paintings in the whole gallery of literature.

It represents King Arthur and his twelve brave knights, seated about the famous Round Table, which was built by Merlin, the wonderful magician.

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