The first book length study on the aesthetic and artistic power of William Butler Yeats, this book demonstrates the centrality in his work of the concept that art might shape life, from his earliest assay to the great poems and plays of his last years.
Phillip L. Marcus is Professor of English at Cornell University and co-general editor of the Cornell Yeats Series. He is also the author of Yeats and the Beginning of the Irish Renaissance.
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