The Life of W. B. Yeats

Terence Brown is Professor of Anglo-Irish literature in Trinity College, Dublin and a Fellow of the College. He is also a member of the Royal Irish Academy and of the Academia Europaea, and has lectured widely on Irish literature and on Irish cultural history. Among his books are studies of Louis MacNeice and of Northern Irish poetry. His numerous publications include Ireland: A Social and Cultural History (1985) and Ireland's Literature: Selected Essays (1988). He is also editor of Derek Mahon: Journalism (1996) and Celticism (1996), and was formerly a contributing editor of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing.

List of Illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgements.

Abbreviations.

Prologue: Sindbad's Yellow Shore.

1. Victorian Cities: London and Dublin.

2. The English 1890s.

3. Poems 1895.

4. Conflicts and Crises.

5. Patronage and Powers.

6. An Irish Ireland.

7. The Strong Enchanter.

8. The Mid-Life Mask.

9. Darkened Rooms.

10. The Lonely Height.

11. All Changed.

12. Occult Marriage.

13. The Weasel's Tooth.

14. Senator and Seer.

15. Visionary Modernist.

16. Home and Abroad.

17. An Old Man's Frenzy.

18. Stroke of Midnight.

Epilogue: Afterlife.

Works Cited.

Select Bibliography and Guide to Further Reading.

Index.