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By Esther Lombardi, About.com Guide to Classic Literature since 2000

Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats

Monday April 19, 2004
Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. YeatsBrenda Brenda Maddox's book is not the first biography about Yeats, nor will this work be the last. He was, after all, a revered Irish poet and writer. When he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, he was recognized "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." Maddox's discussion of Yeats's life, loves, passions, works, and indiscretions is direct and astonishing. Read this review: "Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats"...

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