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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiographies

W.B. Yeats

3.13 AVERAGE

themoonaccepts's review

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ianbanks's review

4.0

For a poet who places so many exquisite thoughts into a small number of lines, Mr Yeats is very long-winded. I never thought it would be possible to find boring anecdotes featuring Oscar Wilde, but Yeats manages it. Very interesting, however, on the birth of modern Irish literature, the hatred of the Irish for the English as well as Yeats' own thoughts about his poetry and plays. He talks a convention of geriatric shoemakers about mysticism and seances, though. Very mixed bag but worthwhile, on the whole.