W. B. Yeats: A Life. II: The Arch-Poet. 1915-1939

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Contents......Page 10 List of Illustrations......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 16 Introduction: Accidence and Coherence......Page 20 Prologue: Crossways......Page 26 Chapter 1: Accomplishment and Noh 1915-1916......Page 30 Chapter 2: Shades and Angels 1916-1917......Page 69 Chapter 3: The Sense of Happiness 1917-1919......Page 119 Chapter 4: A Feeling for Revelation 1919-1920......Page 165 Chapter 5: ‘Weight and Measure in a Time of Dearth’ 1920-1921......Page 195 Chapter 6: Living in the Explosion 1922-1924......Page 230 Chapter 7: Bad Writers and Bishops 1924-1925......Page 279 Chapter 8: Vanity and Pride 1925-1927......Page 318 Chapter 9: Striking a Match 1927-1930......Page 368 Chapter 10: One Last Burial 1930-1932......Page 420 Chapter 11: Struggles Towards Reality 1932-1933......Page 466 Chapter 12: A New Fanaticism 1933-1934......Page 491 Chapter 13: Passionate Metaphysics 1934-1935......Page 521 Chapter 14: Fire and Eating 1936-1937......Page 561 Chapter 15: Folly and Elegance 1937-1938......Page 596 Chapter 16: Dying Like an Empire 1938-1939......Page 636 Epilogue: Genius and History......Page 678 Appendix 1: Letter and Memorandum from the Abbey Directors to the Free State Government, Opening Negotiations for a Subsidy......Page 686 Appendix 2: Lionel Curtis’s Account of His Meeting with WBY on 20 January 1923......Page 693 Abbreviations......Page 696 Notes......Page 700 Index......Page 794 Sources of Illustrations......Page 822