Hvem daterte William Butler Yeats?

William Butler Yeats (født 13. juni 1865 i Sandymount i grevskapet Dublin, død 28. januar 1939 i Menton i Frankrike) var en irsk poet, og en av de fremste figurer i 1900-tallets europeiske litteratur. Han var en søyle både i det irske og det britiske litterære miljøet, og i sine senere år fungerte han som irsk senator i den irske fristaten (Saorstát Éireann) i to perioder.

Olivia Shakespear, född Olivia Tucker, född 17 mars 1863, död 3 oktober 1938, var en brittisk romanförfattare, dramatiker och mecenat. Hon skrev sex böcker som beskrivs som "äktenskapsproblem-romaner". Hennes verk sålde dåligt, ibland bara ett par hundra exemplar. Hennes sista roman, Nurse Harry, anses vara hennes bästa. Hon skrev två pjäser i samarbete med Florence Farr.

Maud Gonne MacBride (irsk: Maud Nic Ghoinn Bean Mac Giolla Bhríghde, født 21. desember 1866, død 27. april 1953) var en engelskfødt irsk revolusjonær, feminist og delvis skuespiller, også husket for hennes turbulente forhold til den irske poeten og nobelprisvinneren i litteratur, William Butler Yeats. Engelsk-irsk avstamning og fødsel, MacBride ble overbevist irsk nasjonalist ved tilstanden til det forviste folket under den såkalte landkrigen på slutten av 1800-tallet. Hun var også en sterk agitator av hjemmestyre, det vil si irsk selvstendighet.

Marguerite "Margot" Ruddock (1907–1951), who used the stage name Margot Collis, was an English actress, poet and singer. She had a relationship with W. B. Yeats starting in 1934. Their correspondence was published as Ah, Sweet Dancer (1970).

Yeats edited her poems for publication, but it is not clear how much change he made to them. He included some of them in the Oxford Book of Modern Verse, which he edited.

Some of her poems have been set as songs by the composer Robert Erickson.

She was married twice: first to John Collis, with whom she had a son, Michael, and secondly to Raymond Lovell, with whom she had a daughter, Simone Lovell. She died in 1951, when she was 44.

During her marriage to Raymond Lovell she had an affair with Yeats. When they met in 1934, Yeats was 69 and Ruddock`was 27. Their affair was conducted fitfully over the next few years. The affair broke down and Ruddock became mentally unstable. Some months later she followed Yeats (uninvited) out to the island of Majorca, where he was working with the Indian monk Shri Purohit Swami. Ruddock ended up in an asylum in Madrid from where she was rescued by Yeats and his friends, but later died in another institution, St. Ebba's Hospital in Epsom. Yeats' poem "A Crazed Girl" is believed to be inspired by Ruddock.