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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
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

Tristram, the prince of Lyonesse, nephew to King Mark of Cornwall. An attractive and talented youth, blessed by fortune in every way, Tristram heedlessly enjoys life until the moment that he realizes he is in love with Isolt of Ireland, the bride whom he had fought to bring back for his uncle. He has a chivalric sense of the demands of honor, from which the only escape is death. His healthy instinct to live means accepting extreme mental anguish, with physical suffering seen as a welcome relief. He is a Hamlet-like figure in his willingness to see the...

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