yeats, w. b.

Chronicles the life of William Butler Yeats from 1915 to 1939 against the backdrop of the Irish revolution, discussing how the country's turmoil influenced his life and his writing.

A collection of work from all phases of Yeats life including over 100 poems, eight plays, a sampling of his prose works and excerpts from his autobiographical and technical writings.

A biography of twentieth-century poet W. B. Yeats, discussing the early influence of his Irish mother who, with her ghost stories, steered him onto his occultist path; looking at his experiments with his much younger wife George in Automatic Script; and analyzing his public career in Ireland, his late poetry, and other aspects of his life.