Volume 8, Number 6 · April 6, 1967

The Politics of Poetry

By Denis Donoghue
W. B. Yeats and Georgian Ireland
by Donald T. Torchiana

Northwestern, 378 pp., $10.95

The Letters of John Gay
edited by C.F. Burgess

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 142 pp., $8.00

There is a remarkable passage in Yeats, near the end of the second Book of A Vision, where we are given a clue to the basic strategy of his work:



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