Did Yeats Ever Marry?

Yeats eventually married Georgina Hyde Lees (he called her George) in 1917, when she was 25 and he was 52. They had two children. At last, his Maud obsession seemed to ebb, nearly 30 years after they first met. His love life remained a tangle.

How many times did Yeats propose to Maud Gonne?

Undeterred and unaware of her ongoing love life back in Paris, Yeats proposed marriage in 1891 but was rejected by Gonne. Yeats vowed to win her round and had proposed to her another three times by the early 1900s.

Did Yeats marry his daughter?

Only a few weeks earlier Iseult Gonne, the daughter of Maud Gonne whom Yeats had loved for many years, had rejected Yeats' marriage proposal. Georgie and Yeats married just three weeks later, on 20 October 1917, in a public registry office, witnessed by her mother and Ezra Pound.