Word: isolt
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MASEFIELD (John) Trislan and Isolt...
...curious effect. From being a poet more dabbled in at the poetry shelf of the library than read, he has suddenly seen America make a beaten path to his door, with the Literary Guild as forest guide. He can never hope to equal the Poet of the People, but "Isolt of the white hands" fifty thousand times iterated is a respectable showing. The pleasantest part of it is that he has lost no part of his poetic dignity; he can still turn to Judge Public and say: "Nobody asked...
Mark's lizard-like son, Andred, steals upon them; then Mark himself. After a baleful interview; seeing that time, after all, favors Isolt and himself; and fearful of changing life's irony into death's futility, Tristram leaves Cornwall on pain of being burned before the lady's forcibly opened eyes...
...revisits Brittany, subdues its horrid Griffon, and, seeing "the still white fire of her necessity," learns to "lavish the comfort of kind lies" on the other Isolt, a child with grey eyes...
...Isolt, and of her recapture by King Mark, and Mark's defeat by her pale steadfastness, and Tristram's last visit to her, when they are slain by crawling Andred without Mark's command, so that the world is emptied for everyone, bringing the tragic peace that Isolt the darker had predicted ? enough is told to trouble the reader greatly though the sense sometimes becomes so rarefied that one welcomes the voice of King Howel, kind father of Isolt the whiter, saying: "You are not going on always with a ghost for company until...