Publisher's Synopsis
It is Dublin, 1916, soon after the Easter Uprising as we enter this intriguing love story. Yeats, Ireland's most famous poet, wrote many of his greatest love poems for Maude Gonne. She was flamboyant, beautiful and a political rebel, while Yeats was forever concerned with convention and ceremony. This is a love story set against the turbulent background of Irish literary flowering and political insurrection.