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"The romance of Tristan and Iseult" is one of the greatest legends in all literature, a story that echoes from age to age and whose combined themes of love and death have fascinated millions of readers for centuries. The story originally appeared in the twelfth century, sung by wandering poets for the pleasure of the lords and ladies of feudal Europe. As its fame spread so did its influence. The theories of courtly love and redemptive passion, which it introduced into european literature, found their wy in varied fashions into the works of the great authors of the West-Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Racine, Byron, Goethe, Wagner among them. Much of our modern literature, as well as many of our modern attitudes toward love, owes its inspiration to this challenging story. But not until the end of the nineteenth century were the various versions of the Tristan legend brought together and retold as a single story. Joseph Bédier's magnificent reconstruction, which first appeared in the year 1900, is as John Erskine wrote, "itself a masterpiece", and in this translation from Bédier's french by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld, one of literature's most fascinating tales is made available to an american audience.
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