William Butler Yeats ranks among the greatest literary talents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though best-known as the author of poems as timeless and delicately crafted as The Lake Isle of Innisfree and for his unrequited love of Maud Gonne, he exerted a remarkable influence in many other aspects of Irish life: a brother to the artist Jack B. Yeats, he was also a leading light of the Irish Literary Revival, founder of the Abbey Theatre and two-term senator. This volume forms a compact introduction to his life and the events shaped his work.
Chapters include:

*The Yeats Family
* Myth , Folklore and Mysticism
* Lady Gregory and Coole Park
* Madame Blatavasky and the Theosophical Society
* Yeats and Politics
* Later Life and the Quest for Rejuvenation
* The National Theatre and the Plays
* Yeats and Politics

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