Yeats And Maud Gonne
In 1889 Yeats met his great love, Maud Gonne (1866-1953), an Irish actress and revolutionary who became a major landmark in the poets life and imagination. From that moment, as he wrote, "the troubling of my life began." He fell in love with her, but his love was hopeless. Maud Gonne liked and admired him, [...]