This volume brings together 19 essays and introductions published by W.B. Yeats after 1912. Included among these is the long essay Per amica silentia lunae - in which Yeats first developed his important doctrine of the mask - widely admired for the luxuriant beauty of its prose. On the Boiler, filled with the deliberately contentious expression of Yeats's extreme opinions on society and culture in his last years, is another entry. Introduction to works by Shelley, Balzac, and the philosopher Bishop George Berkeley help to round out the collection.

Autobiographies consists of six autobiographical works that William Butler Yeats published together in the mid-1930s to form a single, extraordinary memoir of the first fifty-eight years of his life, from his earliest memories of childhood to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This volume provides a vivid series of personal accounts of a wide range of figures, and it describes Yeats's work as poet and playwright, as a founder of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, his involvement with Irish nationalism, and his fascination with occultism and visions. This book is most compelling as...