Autobiographies: The Collected Works Of W.B. Yeats, Volume III; Author: Yeats, William Butler; Editor: Archibald, Douglas N.; Hardcover

Author: Yeats, William Butler; Editor: Archibald, Douglas N.
Series#:3; Collected Works of W. B. Yeats; Hardcover
Published: March 1999
Scribner Book Company
ISBN: 0684807289

The grandfather of all Irish memoirs, this astonishing work consists of six of Yeats's autobiographical essays -- Reveries Over Childhood and Youth, The Trembling of the Veil, DramatisPersonae, Estrangement, The Death of Synge, and The Bounty of Sweden. These works form a vivid account of the first 58 years of Yeats's life, from childhood to his winning of the Nobel Prize for literature.Yeats was the center of Ireland's cultural universe, and Autobiographies contains insightful descriptions of a dazzling assortment of characters, among them Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Madame Blavatsky, Lady Gregory, and John Synge. The book also describes Yeats's involvement with Irish nationalism and his fascination with occultism and visions. Offering Yeats's own account of t