Love Story of Yeats & Maud Gonne

Love Story of Yeats & Maud Gonne
Margery Brady (Author)
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Yeats, William Butler

A dramatic and compelling story of the great love of William Butler Yeats for Maud Gonne – the woman he immortalised in his poetry. 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, illustrated with some of the most poignant poems ever written. William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

• Rank: #199784 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-08-09
• Released on: 2012-08-09
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The autobiography of William Butler Yeats: Consisting of reveries over childhood and youth, the trembling of the veil, and dramatis personae

The autobiography of William Butler Yeats: Consisting of reveries over childhood and youth, the trembling of the veil, and dramatis personae
W. B Yeats (Author)

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Yeats, William Butler

"I have kept back nothing necessary to understanding." The writings in this volume comprise a major poetic testament by the greatest poet to write English in our time. Ranging over fifty-eight years, from Yeats' earliest memories to his winning of the Nobel Prize, The Autobiography includes REVERIES OVER CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH, THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL, DRAMATIS PERSONAE, ESTRANGEMENT, THE DEATH OF SYNGE, and THE BOUNTY OF SWEDEN. Together these writings constitute a fascinating record of Yeats' relationships with such contemporary figures as John Synge, Oscar Wilde, George Moore, William Morris, Madame Blavatsky, Maud Gonne, and the Pre-Raphaelites, as well as his intense preoccupation with the Irish theater, politics, occultism, the cabala, and above all, poetry. In these peopld, issues and ideas lies the origin of the symbols and tensions that inform the work. For Yeats, the concerns of life were equally the concerns of art. This ishis own accounting of the elements, strands, and links that led to the transformation of the one into the other.

• Rank: #3121345 in Books
• Published on: 1964
• Binding: Paperback
• 404 pages

Yeats and the Rhymers' Club (American University Studies Series IV, English Language and Literature)

Yeats and the Rhymers' Club (American University Studies Series IV, English Language and Literature)
Johann Gardner (Author)

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Yeats, William Butler

A diverse group of dedicated poets, the Rhymers' Club provided the environment in which W.B. Yeats «learned his trade.» For the most part, however, these promising young writers passed into obscurity with the end of the Decadent age, leaving behind only incomplete or inaccurate information concerning their activities and character. This study brings together for the first time a comprehensive history of the group. It examines the Rhymers' influence on Yeats, both as a young and a mature poet, and the crucial ways in which he distinguished himself from his less successful contemporaries.

• Rank: #245809 in Books
• Published on: 1988-12-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 249 pages

W.B. Yeats Twentieth Century Magus: An In-Depth Study of Yeat's Esoteric Practices and Beliefs, Including Excerpts from His Magical Diaries

W.B. Yeats Twentieth Century Magus: An In-Depth Study of Yeat's Esoteric Practices and Beliefs, Including Excerpts from His Magical Diaries
Susan Johnston Graf (Author)
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W.B. Yeats--Twentieth Century Magus is a comprehensive study of his magical practices and beliefs. Yeats moved through many different phases of spiritual development, believing that his life was an intellectual, spiritual, and artistic quest--a quest greatly influenced by Celtic lore, Theosophy, Golden Dawn ceremonial magic, Swedenborg's metaphysics, the works of Jacob Boehme, and Neo-Platonism. For Yeats, writing poetry was an act of divine possession, and he believed that a perfected soul was the source of his inspiration, visiting him during times of superconscious awareness. Susan Johnston Graf meticulously documents and provides evidence that Yeat's poetry is brilliant, lyric narrative of realtiy captured through the mind of a practicing magician working in the Western Tradition.

• Rank: #682221 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-01
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 8.11" h x 5.31" w x .67" l, .71 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

W.B. Yeats (Literary Lives Series)

W.B. Yeats (Literary Lives Series)
Micheal Mac Liammoir (Author), Eavan Boland (Author)

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Yeats, William Butler

Ireland's greatest poet, William Butler Yeats, was also perhaps the most outstanding poet to have written in English since Wordsworth. Many of his early poems -- wistful, mysterious, and suffused with Pre-Raphaelite imagery -- are of haunting beauty. But in the early 1900s Yeats became disillusioned with this twilight, imaginary world and turned his thoughts increasingly to reality. Directing his energies to the twin causes or the Irish literary renaissance and Irish national independence, he evolved a new style: austere but capable of sustained magnificence.

• Rank: #204707 in Books
• Published on: 1986-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.13" h x 7.13" w x .39" l, .84 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Letters to W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound from Iseult Gonne: A Girl That Knew All Dante Once

Letters to W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound from Iseult Gonne: A Girl That Knew All Dante Once
A. Norman Jeffares (Editor), Anne White (Editor), Christina Bridgewater (Editor)

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Yeats, William Butler

Iseult Gonne, daughter of Maud Gonne and the French politician and journalist Lucien Millevoye, attracted many admirers - among them distinguished authors such as W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Arthur Symms, Lennox Robinson, Francis Stuart and Liam O'Flaherty. Yeats proposed marriage to her, Ezra Pound had a secret, passionate love affair with her and she married Francis Stuart. This book contains her hitherto unpublished letters to Yeats and Pound, edited and annotated by Anna MacBride White (Maud Gonne's granddaughter), Christina Bridgwater (Iseult's granddaughter) and A. Norman Jeffares, the distinguished Yeats scholar.

• Rank: #355312 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.66" h x 5.75" w x .75" l, .97 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages