Crossword-Solution: TRISTANS 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

This principle has given rise to the love tales of the Middle Ages; the Amadises, the Lancelots, the Tristans of ballad literature, whose constancy may justly be called fabulous, are allegories of the national mythology which our imitation of Greek literature nipped in the bud.

The age of chivalry was gone; the time of the Arthurs and the Tristans had passed away; such a society as the new one could not so well be sung in verse; but it could extremely well be described in prose.

Thick to the lips and velvety Scented of rum and vanilla Oversweet, oversoft, overstrong, Full of froth of fascination, Drink to be drunk of Isoldes Sunk in champagne-colored couches While Tristans with fair flowing hair And round cheeks rosy as cherubs Stand and stretch their arms, And let their great slow tears Roll and fall, And splash in the huge gold cups.

Wagner's insight was clear enough: the Parsifals are no more denials of the Life-Force than the Tristans are; they are simply another phase of the Life-Force.