Yeats

Large 8vo. 232 pp, author's note, list of color plates, 1. Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The Yeats Family; 2. Schooldays: Theosophy and Nationalism; 3. London Years: Madame Blavatsky and Maud Gonne; 4. Poets' Clubs and Secret Societies; 5. Irish Theatre and Irish Politics; 6. theatre Business, Management of Men; 7. Coole Park and London Society; 8. From the Easter Rebellion to the Irish Free State; 9. Blue Shirts and Historical Cycles; 10. An Old Man's Frenzy; concise bibliography, acknowledgments, index. First American Edition, 1976. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "The author gives us a revealing portrait of Yeats, his family, his friends, his many-sided activities as a poet, playwright, politician, and even statesman. We learn of his development as a writer from his early days in Dublin and London, and the influence upon him of the Pre-Raphaelite movement; of William Morris, Ruskin, Pater; of Wilde, Beardsley, and Dowden; the Irish dramatists Shaw, Synge, and O'Casey; the groups that gathered around Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, and Pound; Oxford in the 1920's, and the Auden generation thereafter."