Gottfried von Strassburg

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/ ˈɡɔtfriːt fɔn ˈʃtraːsbʊrk /

noun

1. early 13th-century German poet; author of the incomplete epic Tristan and Isolde, the version of the legend that served as the basis of Wagner's opera

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Gottfried von Strassburg

Gottfried von Strassburg, a German poet who flourished at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins

The Tristan of Gottfried von Strassburg, for example, begins well before the birth of its subject, with noteworthy romantic episodes.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins

But Gottfried von Strassburg, with his vivid, sensuous imagination and keen eye for beauty, shewed a distinct advance both in taste and achievement.

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred

Gottfried von Strassburg; extracts from his “Tristan,”—a heroic poem.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

The Middle-High-German poem of Gottfried von Strassburg, composed about 1210-20.

From Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama by Hight, George Ainslie