Excerpt from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde: Translated Into English Verse HE halo of romance encircles a great many incidents in the life of Richard Wagner, and this fact stamps him as the most interesting personality in the entire gallery of famous ma sicians. Measuring Wagner's character by the rule of com monplace conventionality, it is very easy to discover short comings: his supreme arro gance, his monumental ingratitude, and his enormous egoism; but, after these and other faults have been frankly admitted, it will be seen that the trait of fascinating interest still remains. Nothing can detract. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.