The second coming. Ireland still lives in the shadow of W B Yeats. At times, the shadow darkens and changes its shape, but it is never absent, because his search for freedom and soaring autonomy makes him our contemporary. By Colm ToibIn
Published 27 October 2003
W B Yeats: a life (volume II: the arch-poet) R F Foster Oxford University Press, 798pp, £30 ISBN 0198184654
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