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WB Yeats Poems Inspired By Maud Gonne

WB Yeats Poems Inspired By Maud Gonne

Maud Gonne was a formidable activist and generous philanthropist, whose feminism and nationalism altered the course of Irish history, but she is still best known as the muse of the first Irish nobel laureate for literature, the great poet WB Yeats. This post is about...
Illustration by JB Yeats “The Stolen Child”

Illustration by JB Yeats “The Stolen Child”

In researching the prologue to my Yeats-Gonne series, which is told from the point of view of the fathers of WB Yeats and Maud Gonne, I came across the above black-and white-print by JB Yeats, sold at Whytes Gallery auction recently. It fetched €6,400, which is rather...