How Yeats was a Gonner when it came to Maud

Art, on the whole, is a pretty serious subject, as is unrequited passion. But put the two together and you have Yeats In Love, Annie West’s series of illustrations which present an irreverent take on William Butler Yeats’s life-long infatuation with Maud Gonne.

Anyone less likely to be preoccupied with WB than West would be hard to imagine. As she explains in the introduction, her interest in ...