Word: tristran
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...Benet in his 'John Brown's Body' set for himself a major task, accomplished it, and found recognition. His technical skill, his enthusiasm for his material, and his narrative power, are combined in a poem which has had phenomenal and merited success. Mr. Robinson's 'Tristran' and Mr. Benet's 'John Brown's Body' have brought to good poetry unprecedented popular acclaim in this country--a fact which should be significant in our literary history...
...Parker in his "Coming of Isolde" tells in a few words the final tragedy in the old romance of Sir Tristran and his fair mistress, the king's wife. The tale is skillfully told. The whole story of the two lives is faintly hinted at, although nothing but the closing chapter of that story is given. It would be difficult to find an unnecessary word in the last two pages. Mr. Dodge's essay, "What is a Sonnet?" is the best piece of work in this number of the Monthly. The writer examines the various forms in which the sonnet...
...race for the Epsom gold cup of five hundred sovereigns in plate or specie for three-year-olds and upwards was won by Lefevre's horse Tristran, Hamilton's colt City Arab second, Ellesmere's horse Wallenstein third...
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