Patricia Hughes

An Analysis of Selected Poetry by William Butler Yeats Patricia Hughes

Selections from William Butler Yeats' poetry from 1918 to 1928 revealing his love for a young Catholic 'country wench'. Read how their affair was curtailed by Yeats's wife, George, who had her rival murdered and declared a prostitute by the corrupt Minster of Justice. The sudden, unexpected end of Yeats's plans to remarry and his enforced abandonment of his illegitimate son were hushed up by the authorities, leading him to write it all down in verse.