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Yeats in the real world. (poet and playwright William Butler Yeats)
From: The Southern Review
Date: 19960101
Author:Bell, Vereen
Poet William Butler Yeats reveals his pragmatic side in numerous letters which have been collected in several volumes. While Yeats' works are lyrical evocations of men and women in semi-mythological settings, his letters show him to be primarily concerned with his relationship with Maud Gonne and the establishment of the Irish National Theater Society. Other bibliography on Yeats discuss the development of his plays and poems and gender issues raised by his works.
Reading the third amazing volume of Yeats's Collected Letters - 692 pages' worth, written between 1901 and 1904 - one has a ...
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