The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: William Butler Yeats, Maud Gonne
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: 1893-1938
- Setting: Ireland
- Principal Characters: William Butler Yeats, Maud Gonne
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Politics, Literature, Drama or dramatists, Occultism or the occult, Ireland or Irish people, Celts
- Locales: Ireland
What a revealing, humiliating, finally fascinating correspondence this is: W. B. Yeats, the Irish poet of the Mask that both hides and expresses the person, stands in a unique way naked here, in the hastily written letters his beloved Maud Gonne sent him, replete with their occult and paranormal events, rich in his implicit sadness. (Most of the letters Yeats wrote back were destroyed by the Free Staters when they pillaged Gonne’s home in Dublin, but hers to him survive; this volume contains only thirty of his letters, as against 373 of hers, and the majority of Yeats’s letters are...
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