![]() Yeats & the Founding of the Abbey Theatre ‘Such Friends’ Reading and Viewing Lists: W.WB Yeats & The Irish Literary Renaissance.Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe Manager as Muse: Maxwell Perkins’ Work with F.Scott Fitzgerald and his Scribner’s Editor Maxwell Perkins ‘Such Friends’: Happy Bloomsday! James Joyce in Dublin and Paris.An exceptional showcase of Birmingham’s emerging writers: Words, Images, More.‘Such Friends’ on the May 2013 Semester at Sea Enrichment Voyage: Dublin, London and Paris.“Such Friends”: Britain Before the War–The Irish Literary Renaissance and the Bloomsbury Group.‘Such Friends’ Presentations by Kathleen Dixon Donnelly.I Want to Tell You About an Amazing Man….For annotated reading lists about your favorite authors, leave a comment or e-mail me at Welcome to ‘Such Friends’ Check out the blog about what they were doing 100 years ago this month, or the daily postings to find out what happened on this date. Read more about all the groups by clicking on the pages or categories to the right. Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep…īut one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,Īnd loved the sorrows of your changing face. When you are old and grey and full of sleep,Īnd nodding by the fire, take down this book,Īnd slowly read, and dream of the soft look When his biographer interviewed Gonne years later, she read to him these lines: Yeats and Gonne saw each other just before his death in 1939. Brenda Maddox’s excellent George’s Ghosts chronicles this very unusual marriage. On their honeymoon Georgie miraculously developed the skill of automatic writing, keeping her new husband fascinated. They married in 1917, with Ezra Pound as best man. His marriage proposal rebuffed by Gonne yet again, he asked, “What about your daughter?” Maud laughed, saying, “Ask her.” Although Iseult had a crush on him, she refused him too.įriends, agreeing that Yeats needed a wife, introduced him to George Hyde-Lees. “Easter 1916” brought Yeats’ poetry and his politics together. When MacBride was assassinated after the Easter Rising, Maud donned widow’s weeds and became Ireland’s La Passionara. Eventually they separated, and eventually, yes, Willie and Maud did have sex. MacBride was an abuser, and Lady Gregory encouraged her to divorce the drunk. Willie pointed out that marrying him could have spited the Frenchman as well. Its devastation was nothing compared to the turmoil Gonne’s marriage caused him. At that moment a hurricane hit Coole Park. In summers at her Coole Park, Gregory pulled him to art while Gonne pulled him to politics.Ībout to start a lecture in Dublin in 1903, he received a message that Gonne had married MacBride to spite her French lover. After the Jubilee Riots, Yeats got together with Lady Augusta Gregory and they planned their theatre to present plays based on authentic Irish tales. Willie kept proposing Maud kept refusing. Ask to see the life-size photo of Gonne they have on the wall. When you visit Parnell Square, find the Dublin Photographic Society, just to the west. He locked the doors so Maud couldn’t get out until she explained what she would do, but she told him, “How do I know till I get there?!” That wouldn’t even get her a passport today.ĭuring the 1897 Jubilee Riots, she and Willie were in a club in Rutland (now Parnell) Square. Her claim to Irishness was a 16 th century relative who had immigrated. Gonne was devoted to Irish independence-although she was British. Like the guys who went to 60s peace rallies to pick up chicks, in his new political fervor Yeats wrote a play, Countess Cathleen for her. Sent by a political friend of the 34-year-old poet, she got him even more politically involved. Maud Gonne, six feet tall and gorgeous, arrived on Yeats’ doorstep in a thunderclap in 1889. If she hadn’t jilted William Butler Yeats, we wouldn’t have his beautiful poetry: “Tread softly because you tread on my dreams” (“He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”). Besides giving his life for his country, he married Maud Gonne. Conor Cruise O’Brien has said that Ireland owes a large debt to Irish patriot John MacBride.
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