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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).
He was convinced that the operation revived both ‘my creative power’ and ‘also sexual desire.…’. Chapter 7 examines the poetry engendered by two beautiful women Yeats met in the wake of the Steinach operation who were both Sirens — who sing erotic but ultimately destructive songs — and Muses.
Feb 22, 2013 · There was lovely, young and unhappily married Margot Ruddock. The Marxist Ethel Mannin, the journalist Edith Shackleton Heald. His mind was an aphrodisiac for intelligent women.
Dec 7, 2011 · Ah, sweet dancer: W. B. Yeats, Margot Ruddock: a correspondence. by. Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939; Ruddock, Margot, 1907-; McHugh, Roger Joseph, ed. Publication date. 1971.
Introduction (1936) to Margot Ruddock, The Lemon Tree (1937) was in Majorca, breakfasting in bed at 7.30 when my wife announced that Margot Collis had arrived 1 - at woman in whom I had some two years before divined a frustrated tragic genius.
- 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).
In October and November 1934 Yeats and Margot Ruddock worked on plans for her to read and sing Yeats’s poems from the stage at the Mercury Theatre. Those readings never took place, but she read and chanted his poems in his last three BBC broadcasts, in 1937.
