An Analysis of Selected Poetry by William Butler Yeats

between 1918 and 1928

W. B. Yeats's most difficult poetry, and how it was edited to remove all traces of his Catholic lover, Lily O'Neill, and an illegitimate son. He was not writing about his wife George, or about Maud or Iseult Gonne. despite the insistence of present-day critics. Find out how Yeats's wife manipulated him into denying all knowledge of his 'most exalted lady' and his first-born son.