The Gonne-Yeats Letters 1893-1938

Author: Anna Macbride White
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0393034453

The Gonne-Yeats Letters 1893-1938

Maud Gonne and William Butler Yeats met in early 1889, and he first proposed to her--unsuccessfully--two years later. Get The Gonne-Yeats Letters 1893-1938 literature books for free.
Some of Yeats's greatest poems chronicle his long obsession with her, among them "A Woman Homer Sang," "Reconciliation," and "No Second Troy": What could have made her peaceful with a mind
That nobleness made simple as a fire,
With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind
That is not natural in an age like this,
Being high and solitary and most stern?
Why, what could she have done, being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn? We tend to see Maud Gonne through his prism--a firebrand, a great beauty, above all a political fanatic who made him suffer like mad. The Check The Gonne-Yeats Letters 1893-1938 our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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