W. B. Yeats, 18651939 [Paperback]

This is a biographical account of Yeats' life detailing his early family life, his schooldays, his London years, his rise to literary fame, his relationships and marriage, his Oxford period and his career in public life.Family and early associations; schooldays; London(1887-91); death of Parnell and after; mysticism in prose and verse; dramatis personae - Lady Gregory; theatre and politics - Maud Gonne; out of twilight; the Abbey Theatre; plays and controversies; variety(1910-12); responsibilities; nineteen-sixteen; marriage; Oxford; meditations in time of civil war; a sixty-year-old smiling public man; wheels and butterflies; Riversdale; old age; last days.