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The Love Story Of WB Yeats & Maud Gonne - cover

The Love Story Of WB Yeats & Maud Gonne

Margery Brady

Publisher: Mercier Press

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Summary

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.
Available since: 06/08/2018.
Print length: 256 pages.

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