谁和Margot Ruddock约会过?

Margot Ruddock

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.

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威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

威廉·巴特勒·葉芝(英語:William Butler Yeats,1865年6月13日—1939年1月28日),或稱叶慈,愛爾蘭詩人、劇作家、散文作家,其曾參與創始艾比劇院,並在晚年擔任兩屆愛爾蘭自由邦參議員。他與格雷戈里夫人、愛德華·馬丁(Edward Martyn)等一同推動愛爾蘭文學復興。

他出生在愛爾蘭的桑迪蒙特(Sandymount),並在那裡和倫敦受教育。他是一名新教徒,也是盎格魯-愛爾蘭社群的成員。他在斯萊戈郡度過了童年的假期,並從很小的時候開始學習詩歌,當時他對愛爾蘭傳說和神秘學著迷。這些主題出現在他工作的第一階段,大約持續到 20 世紀之交。他最早的詩集於 1889 年出版,其慢節奏的抒情詩展現了對埃德蒙·斯賓塞、珀西·比希·雪萊和前拉斐爾派詩人的感激之情。從 1900 年開始,他的詩歌變得更加真實和現實。儘管他仍然專注於身體和精神面具以及生命週期理論,但他在很大程度上放棄了他年輕時的超驗信仰。 1923年,他獲得諾貝爾文學獎。

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