Spooky
Terry Eagleton, 7 July 1994
The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats. Vol. III: 1901-1904
edited by John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard.
Oxford, 781 pp., £35, May 1994,0 19 812683 2 Show More
edited by John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard.
Oxford, 781 pp., £35, May 1994,
Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders
by Vivian Mercier.
Oxford, 381 pp., £30, April 1994,0 19 812074 5 Show More
by Vivian Mercier.
Oxford, 381 pp., £30, April 1994,
“... in the knowledge that they were a bunch of dopeheads and deadlegs. Just as the theatre of Bertolt Brecht was made possible by the existence of a mass socialist movement, so Yeats’s poetic enterprise was enabled by the tide of revolutionary nationalism in Ireland, of which he was the self-appointed mythologer. Whatever his doubts about the ... ”