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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.
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
Feb 25, 2023 · Margot Ruddock (1907-1951), also known as Margot Collis, was an English actress, poet and singer who had a relationship with W.B. Yeats. Yeats edited some of her poems, which were published in the Oxford Book of Modern Verse. She was married twice and had a son and daughter.
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Ruddock 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. During her marriage to Lovell she had an affair with W.B. Yeats starting in 1934. She loved him dearly while he was merely getting one over on Maude, his true love, by being promiscious at a...
Yeats included some of her poetry in the Oxford Book of Modern Verse, which he edited. Some of her poems have been set as songs by the composer Robert Erickson.
Poetry
1. The Lemon Tree (edited by W.B. Yeats). London: J.M. Dent, 1937.
Songs
1. Three Contralto Songs(music by Robert Erickson). Baltimore, MD: Smith, 1991.
Letters
1. Ah, Sweet Dancer: W.B. Yeats, Margot Ruddock: A correspondence (edited by Roger Joseph McHugh). New York: Macmillan, 1971. Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.
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 ...
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).
