Career
She had a relationship with West. B. Yeats starting in 1934. Their correspondence was published as Ah, Sweet Dancer (1970). Yeats edited her poems for publication, but it is not clear how much change he made to them.
He included some of them in the Oxford Book of Modern Verse, which he edited.
Some of her poems have been set as songs by the composer Robert Erickson. She died in 1951, when she was 44.
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The affair broke down and Margot Ruddock became mentally unstable, which Yeats links to in his poem "A Crazed Girl".