Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats

This volume covers a tumultuous period in Yeats''s public and personal life, beginning with the acrimonious collapse of Maud Gonne''s marriage to Major MacBride (who not only accused Yeats of being her lover but also threatened to shoot him). Dramas at the Abbey Theatre were hardly less intense, both on and off the stage: the euphoria which followed the successful opening of the new theatre quickl...