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4 giorni fa · La poesia molto probabilmente fu scritta pensando a Maud Gonne, attrice e attivista irlandese impegnata nel femminismo e per liberare l’Irlanda dal controllo Britannico. Yeats incontrò per la prima volta Gonne nel 1889, quando aveva 23 anni, e se ne innamorò immediatamente. Nelle sue memorie, scrive che quell’incontro fu
21 mag 2024 · In 1889 Yeats met Maud Gonne, an Irish beauty, ardent and brilliant. 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, but she was not in love with him.
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- William Butler Yeats’s father, John Butler Yeats, was a barrister who eventually became a portrait painter. His mother, formerly Susan Pollexfen, w...
- Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer William Butler Yeats was the preeminent writer of the Irish literary renaissance at the turn of the 20th ce...
- In his early writings, William Butler Yeats evoked a legendary and supernatural Ireland, more pagan than Christian. He hoped to instill pride in th...
10 mag 2024 · 'When You Are Old' by W. B. Yeats is a wistful poem about unrequited love. See an analysis of the poem's form and techniques and learn about Yeats' relationship with Maud Gonne.
22 mag 2024 · Karen Steele Raising Her Voice for Justice: Maud Gonne and the United Irishman Feminist critics have often claimed that an Irish nationalist identity is inherently chauvinistic. Eavan Boland, for example, has repeatedly described the challenges for a woman poet writing in a constraining national tradition that emblematizes females as ...
22 mag 2024 · Always mentioned with respect and admiration by her more famous contemporaries-Yeats, .£, Maud Gonne, Thomas MacDonagh, to name a few-Milligan has not been accorded her rightful place as one of the foremost women of the Irish revolutionary period.
1 giorno fa · Maud Gonne, for example, viewed the ‘nurturing and teaching of children … as important activities in their own right and not merely as the means to a more radical end’, as scholars such as Karen Steele have suggested (p. 115). At times there’s almost an air of debunking.
19 mag 2024 · Maud Gonne In 1889, Yeats met Maud Gonne, a 23-year-old English heiress and ardent Irish nationalist. She was eighteen months younger than Yeats and later claimed she met the poet as a "paint-stained art student." Gonne admired "The Island of Statues" and sought out his acquaintance.
