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Selections from William Butler Yeats' poetry revealing an autobiographical account of his sudden heart problem and severe depression. Both my father and I loved poetry; we quoted it to each other all the time.He had racks of it on his bookshelves and delighted in showing me the beauty and honesty of the mere arrangement of words. When I began to systematically read the later poetry of William Butler Yeats I was looking for the story of his extra-marital lover, a young Catholic woman who gave birth to his first beloved son. But she was murdered and he had to abandon his son. I found everything I was looking for right here in the poetry.…mehr

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Selections from William Butler Yeats' poetry revealing an autobiographical account of his sudden heart problem and severe depression. Both my father and I loved poetry; we quoted it to each other all the time.He had racks of it on his bookshelves and delighted in showing me the beauty and honesty of the mere arrangement of words. When I began to systematically read the later poetry of William Butler Yeats I was looking for the story of his extra-marital lover, a young Catholic woman who gave birth to his first beloved son. But she was murdered and he had to abandon his son. I found everything I was looking for right here in the poetry.
Autorenporträt
Since 2006, when Patricia Hughes first discovered the close resemblance of her father to William Butler Yeats, she has been researching and writing about what happened. Starting with a collection of her first research notes in 'William Butler Yeats and the Murder of Honor Bright', she progressed to "An Analysis of Selected Poetry by William Butler Yeats between 1918 and 1928," before finally writng all her research findings into 'Who Killed Honor Bright? How William Butler and George Yeats Caused the Fall of the Irish Free State.' The essay in this book was a result of a talk she gave in 2015 at the University of Florence in Italy. It was published by Professor Fiorenzo Fantaccini of the Department of Irish Studies in the journal "Studi Inglese'.