Word: iseult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ROMANCE OF TRISTAN AND ISEULT-Joseph Bédier-Pantheon Books...
Yeats went to France and "talked of marriage" to Maud Gonne, but it was clear that Maud was "far more interested in securing a passport to Ireland to work for the prisoners." He proposed then, and then again, to her exquisite daughter Iseult. H. decided, at length, to marry his good friend Georgie Hyde-Lees, "if she were not 'tired of the idea.' " She was not, and they were married in London in October 1917. His old fencing companion, Ezra Pound, was best man. In February 1919, in Dublin, Anne Butler Yeats was born. Yeats told a friend...
...their desperate plight to their over-susceptibility to passionate love. Ancient Greeks and Romans, says he, regarded love as a mental aberration, an unqualified misfortune; Orientals so regard it today. Only in the Western world has it taken a hold in the mores, been accorded respect. Taking Tristan and Iseult as the archetypes of passion, he hangs on their necks more weight than Freud ever hung on Oedipus...
...German uniform insignia, but also maps of Dublin bridges, harbors and airdrome, a box containing $20,000 in U. S. money. The parachute, Held explained, had been left by a German named Heinrich Brandy, who had stayed at his house after arriving from the sky. The second suspect, Mrs. Iseult Stuart, daughter of Maud Gonne (see p. 76), wife of an aviator now living in Berlin, was charged with providing civilian clothes to a 'chutist and concealing...