The Love Story Of W.B. Yeats & Maud Gonne

The Love Story Of W.B. Yeats & Maud Gonne
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Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Total Pages : 129
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ISBN-10 : 9781781171028
ISBN-13 : 1781171025
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Synopsis The Love Story Of W.B. Yeats & Maud Gonne by : Margery Brady

Set in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this romantic tale unfolds against a background of political unrest and tenant agitation in Ireland. The poet William Butler Yeats is a central figure in the Irish literary revival, while Maud Gonne, a political activist, is passionately involved in the struggle for Irish independence. But this is not a dissertation about Yeats' work, nor is it about the history of the day or the political involvements of Maud Gonne. It is a love story, containing some of the most poignant poems ever written.

When You Are Old

When You Are Old
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9780143107644
ISBN-13 : 014310764X
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis When You Are Old by : William Butler Yeats

Beautiful early writings by one of the 20th century’s greatest poets on the 150th anniversary of his birth A Penguin Classic The poems, prose, and drama gathered in When You Are Old present a fresh portrait of the Nobel Prize–winning writer as a younger man: the 1890s aesthete who dressed as a dandy, collected Irish folklore, dabbled in magic, and wrote heartrending poems for his beloved, the beautiful, elusive Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne. Included here are such celebrated, lyrical poems as “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” as well as Yeats’s imaginative retellings of Irish fairytales—including his first major poem, “The Wanderings of Oisin,” based on a Celtic fable—and his critical writings, which offer a fascinating window onto his artistic theories. Through these enchanting works, readers will encounter Yeats as the mystical, lovelorn bard and Irish nationalist popular during his own lifetime. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938

The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Total Pages : 588
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ISBN-10 : 0815603029
ISBN-13 : 9780815603023
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938 by : Anna MacBride White

This correspondence, which began when Gonne was 22 and Yeats was 23 and ended with his death, includes 373 of her letters but only 30 of his, since most of his were destroyed in the Irish Civil War. They are edited with complete notes identifying people and incidents likely to be unfamiliar to current readers. The introduction and connecting material provide biographical information and explain the circumstances in which the letters were written.

The Adulterous Muse

The Adulterous Muse
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Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 1843516780
ISBN-13 : 9781843516781
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis The Adulterous Muse by : Adrian Frazier

This biography pursues the story of what attracted Maud Gonne to a man like Lucien Millevoye, and what imprint the attachment left upon her.

The Love Story of Yeats and Maud Gonne

The Love Story of Yeats and Maud Gonne
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Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Total Pages : 129
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ISBN-10 : 9780853429357
ISBN-13 : 0853429359
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The Love Story of Yeats and Maud Gonne by : Margery Brady

"A ... story of the great love of W. B. Yeats for Maud Gonne, the woman he immortalized in his poems. Set in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this romantic tale unfolds against a backdrop of political unrest and tenant agitation in Ireland. The poet W. B. Yeats was a central figure in the Irish literary revival while Maud Gonne, a political activist, was passionately involved in the struggle for Irish independence"--From back cover.

Maude Gonne

Maude Gonne
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Publisher : OR Books
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 1682192067
ISBN-13 : 9781682192061
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Maude Gonne by : Kim Bendheim

Maud Gonne, the legendary woman known as the Irish Joan of Arc, left her mark on everyone she met. She famously won the devotion of one of the greatest poets of the age, William Butler Yeats. Born into tremendous privilege, she allied herself with rebels and the downtrodden and openly defied what was at the time the world's most powerful empire. She was an actress, a journalist and an activist for the cause of Irish independence. Ignoring the threat of social ostracism, she had several children out of wedlock. She was an independent woman who charted her own course. Yet Maud Gonne was also a lifelong anti-semite, someone who, even after the horrors of the Second World War, could not summon sympathy for the millions murdered by the Nazis. A believer in the occult and in reincarnation, she took mescaline with Yeats to enhance visions of mythic Irish heroes and heroines, and in mid-life converted to Catholicism in order to marry her husband, the Irish Catholic war hero John MacBride. What motivated this extraordinary person? Kim Bendheim has long been fascinated by Maud Gonne's perplexing character, and here gives us an intensely personal assessment of her thrilling life. The product of much original research, including interviews with Gonne's equally vivid, unconventional descendants, The Fascination of What's Difficult is a portrait of a powerful woman who, despite her considerable flaws, continues to inspire.

A Servant of the Queen

A Servant of the Queen
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:1098725068
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis A Servant of the Queen by : Maud Gonne

Yeats in Love

Yeats in Love
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Total Pages : 80
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ISBN-10 : 1848403925
ISBN-13 : 9781848403925
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Yeats in Love by : Annie West

Annie West's irreverent art brings to life W.B. Yeats's futile pursuit of the beautiful, unobtainable Maud Gonne. Introduced by Theo Dorgan, and complete with poetry by Yeats as well as quotes by those who bore witness to his infatuation, including Katharine Tynan, Douglas Hyde and his own sisters, Lolly and Lily, Yeats in Love is a truly original depiction of a decades-long adolescent crush.

Cathleen Ni Hoolihan

Cathleen Ni Hoolihan
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Total Pages : 38
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ISBN-10 : IND:32000000664112
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Synopsis Cathleen Ni Hoolihan by : William Butler Yeats

The concepts of love in William Butler Yeats's poetry

The concepts of love in William Butler Yeats's poetry
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Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Total Pages : 15
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ISBN-10 : 9783638800914
ISBN-13 : 3638800911
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis The concepts of love in William Butler Yeats's poetry by : Stefan Hinterholzer

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Innsbruck (Department of English), course: The Irish Literary Revival, language: English, abstract: Love was one of William Butler Yeats’s great inspirations. It was love that kept him moving and developing. It was love that confused him and made him reflect. It was love that shattered him and made him mourn. Yeats’s experience with love was rich and fulfilling as well as frustrating and devastating. In order to come to a better understanding of Yeats’s love poetry, we need to take a look into his private life: “Yeats met the fiery revolutionary [Maud Gonne] in 1889. He fell deeply in love with her and would propose to her in 1891, 1899, 1900, 1901, and 1916. Gonne had no use for Yeats's proposals. However, she did have a use for his talents. Gonne would use Yeats for his ability as an orator. Maud Gonne, dragging him at her heels on nationalist agitations, soon found that he was a natural orator and could easily dominate committees. Maud Gonne would continue to turn Yeats proposals down, yet she continued to be the catalyst for the finest love poetry Yeats would ever create. Gonne would once ask for Yeats's help in London, ending a brief but happy love affair with Olivia Shakespear. Sensing divided loyalty, Shakespear would end the affair and it was shortly thereafter that Lady Gregory would save Yeats from a potentially more tragic end, like the poets of the tragic generation” (cf. nadn.navy). Yeats really loved Maud Gonne. She was the love of his life, and still, she would never really react to, let alone return his love. Yeats has experienced the many different facets of love through this continuous interaction between his everlasting true and sincere affection and dedication and her cold and calculating rejection. But although this may be a personal tragedy it also resulted in something positive and beautiful, namely Yeats’s love poetry Maud Gonne inspired him to. Yeats managed to deal with all his positive and negative experiences in a productive way and included them into his poetry. Maud Gonne once even said to him that she could not stop rejecting him as he would not write such beautiful poetry about her anymore then. As said, Yeats’s perception and concepts of love can be identified in his poetry. Furthermore, we can identify a development of Yeats’s depiction of love in his poetry. We can find many different sides of love in Yeats’s poems. In some poems, Yeats describes it as an almost divine power. In other poems, he starts doubting whether love is really that fulfilling or not. And in further poems, he even focuses on the dark and destructive sides of love. These different concepts of love will be described in this paper through the analysis of selected poems.