How To Use Maud Gonne In A Sentence
- Maud Gonne was the muse of W.B. Yeats, the Irish poet.
- He twice proposed marriage to Maud Gonne, and when she refused him he transferred his affections to her teenage daughter.
- He's kvetching about how all his work for the Irish Republic has earned him only ‘the daily spite of this unmannerly town’ and Maud Gonne reproves him.
- That self-moving, selfcreating nation necessitated an Irish centre of policy, and I planned a premature impossible peace between those two devouring heads because I was sedentary and thoughtful; but Maud Gonne was not sedentary, and I noticed that before some great event she did not think but became exceedingly superstitious. Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
- Maud Gonne was the muse of W.B. Yeats, the Irish poet.
- In 1889 Yeats met his great love, Maud Gonne (1866-1953), an actress and Irish revolutionary who became a major landmark in his life and imagination.