Excerpt from The Romance of Tristram and Iseult: Translated From the FrenchDangerous one. (11 This should suffice to attract readers who love both history and poetry. But in addition they will be fascinated as they read this ancient story by the charm of the detail, the mysterious and mythic beauty of certain episodes, the happy invention of others, the freshness of the Situations and sentiments, all that makes the poem a unique combination of hoary age and eternal youth, of Celtic melancholy and French grace, of powerful realism and delicate psychology.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.