Yeats's Ghosts The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats

Name: Yeats's Ghosts The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats
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ISBN: 9780060174941

ISBN-10: 0060174943

ISBN-13: 9780060174941

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Authors: Brenda Maddox

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William Butter Yeats, who some critics feel was the greatest English language poet of our century, led a life of many contradictions. He was Ireland's most revered writer and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. But in his private life, Yeats struggled with passionate, if unrequited, relationships with women and was haunted by the spirits of his ancestors. Renowned biographer Brenda Maddox examines the poet's life through the prism of his personal obsession with the supernatural and otherworldly. She considers for the first time the Automatic Script, the trancelike communication with supposed spirits that he and his much younger wife. Georgie, conducted during the early years of their…

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List price: $32.00
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/8/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction






An Astrological Deadline (January-March 1917)



Counting (March-May 1917)



Mother or Daughter (August-September 1917)






Soror and Frater (October 1917)



Folie a Deux (November-December 1917)



An Adventure (January-March 1918)



What Rough Beast? (March 1918-February 1919)



Only One More (March 1919-May 1920)



Waiting for J. B. (May 1920-July 1922)






The Silent Woman (1865-1900)






Politics and Potency (1922-1928)



Politics and Potency, Con't. (1928-1934)



"This Is Baghdad" (April 1934-December 1935)



O My Dears (January 1936-March 1937)



Such Friends (April 1937-January 1938)



A Working Year (January 1938-January 28, 1939)


Epilogue: Laid to Rest?


Abbreviations and Short Forms


Notes and Sources


Bibliography


Index