Letters to W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound from Iseult Gonne : a girl that knew all Dante once /

Letters to W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound from Iseult Gonne : a girl that knew all Dante once /

Show other versions (28)
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Uniform title:Correspondence.
Author / Creator: Gonne, Iseult, 1894-1954.
Other Authors / Creators:Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Jeffares, A. Norman 1920-2005.
White, Anna MacBride.
Bridgwater, Christina.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Subjects:
Yeats, W. B. > (William Butler), > 1865-1939 > Correspondence.
Yeats, W. B. > (William Butler), > 1865-1939 > Relations with women.
Pound, Ezra, > 1885-1972 > Relations with women.
Gonne, Iseult, > 1894-1954 > Relations with men.
Pound, Ezra, > 1885-1972 > Correspondence.
Gonne, Iseult, > 1894-1954 > Correspondence.
Gonne, Iseult, > 1894-1954.
Pound, Ezra, > 1885-1972.
Yeats, W. B. > (William Butler), > 1865-1939.
20th century
Poets, American > 20th century > Correspondence.
Poets, American.
Women.
Relations with men.
Relations with women.
Poets, Irish > 20th century > Correspondence.
Poets, Irish.
Women > Ireland > Correspondence.
Womyn.
Ireland.
Correspondence.
Biographies.
Personal correspondence.
Description
Summary:Iseult Gonne, daughter of Maud Gonne and the French politician and journalist Lucien Millevoye, attracted many admirers - among them distinguished authors such as W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Arthur Symms, Lennox Robinson, Francis Stuart and Liam O'Flaherty. Yeats proposed marriage to her, Ezra Pound had a secret, passionate love affair with her and she married Francis Stuart. This book contains her hitherto unpublished letters to Yeats and Pound, edited and annotated by Anna MacBride White (Maud Gonne's granddaughter), Christina Bridgwater (Iseult's granddaughter) and A. Norman Jeffares, the distinguished Yeats scholar.
Physical Description:xx, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-241) and index.
ISBN:1403921342
Author Notes:William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland on June 13, 1865. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief playwright until the movement was joined by John Synge. Yeats' plays included The Countess Cathleen, The Land of Heart's Desire, Cathleen ni Houlihan, The King's Threshold, and Deirdre.

Although a convinced patriot, Yeats deplored the hatred and the bigotry of the Nationalist movement, and his poetry is full of moving protests against it. He was appointed to the Irish Senate in 1922. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." He is one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize. His poetry collections include The Wild Swans at Coole, Michael Robartes and the Dancer, The Tower, The Winding Stair and Other Poems, and Last Poems and Plays. He died on January 28, 1939 at the age of 73.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Similar Items