He is best known as a translator into Middle English verse of Robert de Borron's lengthy Arthurian poems written in French: The History of the Holy Grail and The Romance of Merlin.
[1] The estimated dates for the Holy Grail and Merlin translations are 1450–1475,[2] although some earlier scholars suggested 1420–1455.
The versification has been described as poor, but the Merlin manuscript has never been fully edited or glossed.
[3] However, several of Henry Lovelich's works have been published by the Early English Text Society.
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