WILLIAM 'BUTLER YEATS
• . By J. H. Pollock
This book (Duckworth, 2s. 6d.) is the fourth of a series of " Noted Irish Lives," which has already included Sarsfield, John Mitchel,Mxt'ThemaaDavia, and has-among its announce- ments of forthcoming atiditiolis...voltimes on - Wolfe Tone, Emmet, Grattan, ThomsaiMoore,and "James...Connolly. It is described as, a " critical biography," .but. there. is very little biography about it, and for the most part is merely a somewhat commonplace critique of. the developments in Mr. Yeats's poetry. As no good botik about Mr. Yeats exists (Mr. Forrest Reid's -et advi--pablished—ift--4-814,--was---written--- before :Mr. Yeats's most important contribution to • poetry had been made) it must, however, be recommended for the time being as. the best available study of the subject.
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