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The Poet As Politician - new biography of W.B. Yeats examines broader context of poet's life - Critical Essay
Reason, Feb, 2001 by Michael Valdez Moses
If we seek a redemptive political lesson from these late works, it might be the singular consolation that a distinguishing virtue of a liberal society is its capacity to accommodate the most demonic of muses.
Michael Valdez Moses (mmoses@duke.edu) is an associate professor of English at Duke University, a fellow at the National Humanities Center, and author of The Novel and the Globalization of Culture (Oxford University Press).
The Life of W.B. Yeats, by Terence Brown, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 384 pages, $39.50
W.B. Yeats: A Life: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914, by R.F. Foster, New York: Oxford University Press, 672 pages, $21.50
Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats, by Brenda Maddox, New York:, HarperPerennial, 496 pages, $16
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