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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).
As fate would have it, within six months of the Steinach operation Yeats received a letter from a twenty‐seven‐year‐old actress and poet, Margot Ruddock, seeking his help with her poetry and in developing a poets' theater in London.
29 de jan. de 2020 · Nel 1934 Yeats, il grande poeta premio Nobel, conosce la giovane Margot Ruddock. Se ne innamora perdutamente, svezzandola alla poesia. Lei però impazzisce.
Introduction (1936) to Margot Ruddock, The Lemon Tree (1937). In: O’Donnell, W.H. (eds) Prefaces and Introductions. The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats.
- William H. O’Donnell
- 1988
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).
First, it was contemporaneous with other extravagant episodes — the Steinach operation, the collaboration with Shri Purohit Swami, the sponsorship of Margot Ruddock — the meaning of which seems to lie in their very extravagance, in their keeping with Yeats’s wish, expressed in a poem of the time, to avoid ‘all that makes a wise old man ...
So Yeats informed Margot Ruddock on October 11, 1934, from Rome, where he had begun to redraft The King of the Great Clock Tower to give her a role to act. In June of that year Yeats had begun to rewrite his first prose version of the play before it had even been staged (it was performed most successfully at the Abbey Theatre from July 30 that ...
