Download or read book The Love Story of Yeats and Maud Gonne written by Margery Brady and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1990 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A ... story of the great love of W. B. Yeats for Maud Gonne, the woman he immortalized in his poems. Set in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this romantic tale unfolds against a backdrop of political unrest and tenant agitation in Ireland. The poet W. B. Yeats was a central figure in the Irish literary revival while Maud Gonne, a political activist, was passionately involved in the struggle for Irish independence"--From back cover.