W. B. Yeats and George Yeats, The Letters, ed. Ann Saddlemyer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xxii + 599. Neil Mann, Matthew Gibson and Claire Nally (eds.), W.B. Yeats’s ‘A Vision’: Explications and Contexts (Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2012), pp. xx + 374.
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Lauren Arrington, « W. B. Yeats and George Yeats, The Letters, ed. Ann Saddlemyer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xxii + 599. Neil Mann, Matthew Gibson and Claire Nally (eds.), W.B. Yeats’s ‘A Vision’: Explications and Contexts (Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2012), pp. xx + 374. », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.iukynn
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In October 1937, George Yeats (GY) wrote to W. B. Yeats (WBY) mildly complaining of a tedious conversation with the ‘chatterbox’ Colm O’Lochlainn, who – as one of Saddlemyer’s wonderful footnotes tells us – would write in his entry on Yeats for the British Annual of Irish Literature (1939): ‘towards the end his mind was all bemused with strange occult philosophies, theosophy, spiritism; and in play or poem these were given an airing, without even full conviction to defend them’. As the most r...