Available once again is the dramatic and compelling story of the great love of William Butler Yeats for Maud Gonne – the woman he immortalized in his poetry.

Set in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this romantic tale unfolds against a background of political unrest. The poet William Butler Yeats is a central figure in the Irish literary revival while Maud Gonne, a political activist, is passionately involved in the struggle for Irish independence. Yet the book is not a dissertation on Yeats’s work, the history of the day or the political involvements of Maud Gonne. It is a love story, illustrated with some of the most poignant poems ever written.