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Georgie Hyde-Lees Yeats (born Bertha Hyde-Lees, 1892 – 1968) [1] was the wife of the poet William Butler Yeats. [2] Early life. Daughter of militia captain (William
"A Prayer for My Daughter" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written in 1919 and published in 1921 as part of Yeats' collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer.It is written to Anne, his daughter with Georgie Hyde-Lees, whom Yeats married after his last marriage proposal to Maud Gonne was rejected in 1916. [1]
That September, Yeats proposed to 25-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees (1892–1968), known as George, whom he had met through Olivia Shakespear. Despite warnings from her friends—"George ... you can't. He must be dead"—Hyde-Lees accepted, and the two were married on 20 October 1917. [45]
Many believe that The Gift of Harun Al-Raschid was inspired by Yeats' marriage and, specifically, served as an ode to the kind of love that he shared with his wife Georgie Hyde-Lees. For context, one can turn to Yeats' years of obsessive infatuation with Maud Gonne, an English heiress who rejected his marriage proposal three times. She became ...
Yeats wrote this work while experimenting with automatic writing alongside his wife Georgie Hyde-Lees. It serves as a meditation on the relationships between imagination, history, and the occult. A Vision has been compared to Eureka: A Prose Poem, the final major work of Edgar Allan Poe. [1] [2] Yeats published a second edition with alterations ...
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The Butler Yeats family of Ireland Pages in category "Butler Yeats family" ... Georgie Hyde-Lees Yeats; J. Jack B. Yeats; John Butler Yeats; L. Lily Yeats; M. Maud Gonne;
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