Maud Gonne was the beautiful and charismatic inspiration of
Yeats’s love poetry, a leading activist in the Irish republican
movement and the founder of Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of
Ireland). One hundred and fifty years after her birth, everyone
still knows her face, but her life remains something of a mystery.
This biography pursues the story of what attracted Maud Gonne to a
man like Lucien Millevoye, and what imprint the attachment left
upon her. Once jilted by Millevoye, Gonne marched into a truly
ill-starred marriage to Major John MacBride. The horrible truth of
their mismatch is examined through the evidence entered by both
parties in the divorce proceedings. The author uses the vast
resources of newly digitised French newspapers and journals to
track the celebrated Gonne and her beloved Lucien Millevoye through
the sensational turmoil of the Third Republic in France and into
the violent push for a republic in Ireland. The shifting levels of
awareness, desire, and mutual complicity in self-deception on the
part of W.B. Yeats and his muse are traced with subtlety.
Ultimately, the effect of the group biography as a whole is to make
Yeats’s early love poems, so long in the public eye, more visible
than they have ever been.
General
| Imprint: |
The Lilliput Press Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
Ireland |
| Release date: |
October 2016 |
| Authors: |
Adrian Frazier
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 350mm (L x W x H) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
320 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-84351-678-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-84351-678-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781843516781 |
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