Running to Paradise

In Running to Paradise, M.L. Rosenthal, hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as "one of the most important critics of twentieth-century poetry," leads us through the lyric poetry and poetic drama of our century''s greatest poet in English. His readings shed new, vivid light on Yeats''s daring uses of tradition, his love poetry, and the way he faced the often tragic realities of revolution and c...