Lucky eyes and a high heart: The life of Maud Gonne

By Nancy Cardozo and Nancy Cardoza

Book Overview

"I was twenty-three years old when the troubling of my life began...I had never thought to see in a living woman so great beauty...lineaments which Blake calls the highest beauty because it changes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067252080X
• ISBN13: 9780672520808
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Irish history made flesh

Before I read this book, all I knew of Maud Gonne was what Yeats had seen fit to tell us. And that's just not very nice, is it? This well-balanced and evocative portrait is not afraid to honestly depict the great lady's weaknesses, but it also gives us her strengths and the story of the incredibly valuable work she did for Ireland - not just for the abstraction of Eire, but gritty, real work that was to the direct benefit of children and prisioners.