Dec 27, 2009
Tristram | Tristram
At a glance:
- Author: Edwin Arlington Robinson
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Arthurian romance
- Time of Work: Arthurian period
- Setting: England and Brittany
- Principal Characters: Tristram, Mark, Howel, Isolt of the White Hands, Isolt, Gouvernail, Andred, Queen Morgan
- Genres: Poetry, Romance, medieval, Narrative poetry, Arthurian romance
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, England or English people, Death or dying, Kings, queens, or royalty, Legends, Knights or knighthood, Chivalry
- Locales: Brittany, France, Cornwall, England
The Story:
Isolt of the white hands was too pensive and preoccupied for a
young woman. She was always looking to the north, toward England.
Her father, King Howel of Brittany, loved his daughter too much to
let her attitude go unquestioned. Isolt told her father she was
waiting for Tristram, who some time before had made a visit to the
Breton court. Fond of Isolt as an adult is fond of a child,
Tristram had given her on his departure an agate for a keepsake and
had promised to come back. Now Isolt was a woman of eighteen, and
she waited for Tristram as a woman waits for her...
[The entire page is 2406 words long]
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