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Iseult Lucille Germaine Gonne (6 August 1894 – 22 March 1954) was the daughter of the Irish republican revolutionary Maud Gonne and the French politician and journalist Lucien Millevoye. She married the novelist Francis Stuart in 1920.
12 kwi 2022 · Iseult Gonne was the daughter of Maud Gonne, Yeats's longtime friend and unrequited love, and a muse for his poetry. Learn about her life, relationship with Yeats, and influence on his work.
How did Iseult Gonne, the daughter of Maud Gonne, influence Yeats's essay and poetry on the role of desire and sublimation in artistic inspiration? This chapter explores their relationship, correspondence, and the impact of her rejection of his proposal.
Iseult Gonne was the illegitimate daughter of Irish nationalist Maud Gonne and a muse for poet W. B. Yeats. She learned Bengali, translated Tagore, and married Francis Stuart, a poet of Ulster descent.
Gonne, Iseult (1894–1954), writer and muse, was born 6 August 1894 in Paris, daughter of Lucien Millevoye, French politician, lawyer, and journalist, and Maud Gonne (qv), Irish revolutionary nationalist. She was their second child and was conceived in the memorial chapel of their first, short-lived son, Georges.
28 wrz 2012 · Iseult Gonne (6 August 1894 – 22 March 1954) was conceived in the mausoleum of her late brother in an attempt by her parents to reincarnate their dead, still adored infant son. She is remembered in history as a muse and love interest of W.B. Yeats and the inspiration for his famous poem ‘To a Child Dancing in the Wind’ among others.
4 gru 2019 · Iseult was 22, and described as a Pre-Rapehlite beauty, when he repeatedly asked her to marry him. If she took him seriously and considered it, or if she saw it as a joke, is contested between Yeats and her future husband Francis Stuart, who wrote different versions of what happened.
