Was There A Golden Age of Arthurian Fantasy?

Recently, I posted on ‘The Matter Of Britain” — the Medieval term for Arthurian cycle — and its influence on Fantasy fiction in two posts, one looking at adult Fantasy, the other at works for Junior and YA readers.

In the first post, I reflected on “the swathe of Arthurian-based works for adult readers that dominated 1970s and 1980s Fantasy literature—with the theme continuing to maintain traction through into the 1990s.”

The Junior/YA fiction had a slightly wider sweep, with The Sword in the...