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

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