He rose to early fame as the editor of several anthologies of German poetry of a ‘spiritual’ kind, including Der deutsche Psalter and two volumes of Die Ernte aus acht Jahrhunderten deutscher Lyrik, and for his retelling of the Tristan and Isolde and Parzifal stories, all of which sold in tens of thousands before 1914.
Tristan und Isolde | Tristan | Tristan Tzara | Tristan Murail | Tristan Bernard | Iseult | Tristan da Cunha | Tristan Keuris | Tristan l'Hermite | Tristan Gale | Tristan and Iseult | Prose Tristan | Iseult Gonne | François Tristan l'Hermite | Tristan Rogers | Tristan Park | Tristan Needham | Tristan Emmanuel | Tristan Dyer | Tristán de Luna y Arellano | Tristan Bowen | Tristán Bauer | Tristan Bancks | Prose ''Tristan'' | Frédérick Tristan |
Two of Marie's lais – "Lanval," a very popular work that was adapted several times over the years (including the Middle English Sir Launfal), and "Chevrefoil" ("The Honeysuckle"), a short composition about Tristan and Iseult – mention King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
Among the ensemble's awards are the Grand Prix du Disque (1987) for a medieval version of the Tristan and Iseult legend.
Brangaine, a character in many versions of the legend of Tristan and Iseult
Throughout Hardy's life, the stories of Tristan and Iseult, Aeneas and Dido, and Orpheus and Eurydice, stories about mythological figures that had loved and lost, helped to shape society's view.