Description: It is now over 100 years since William Butler Yeats and Maud Gonne became enchanted with each other. Both free thinkers and unorthodox lovers, they fascinate us now as much as their eccentricities and passions made them a formidable pair in their own time. This is their story, set against the turbulent background of literary flowering and political insurrection of early 20th Century Ireland; it is a passionate love story that fuelled some of the finest love poems in our language. For 30 years he was obsessed with her, wrote superb poetry for her, yearned for her, loved her and hated her. She crippled his emotional life, yet all the while she enhanced his artistry. "The world will thank me for not marrying you, Willie", she said. And she was right.

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