According to Yeats, his wife surprised him on 24 October 1917, four days after their marriage, by attempting automatic writing. Excited, he offered to spend the remainder of his life organizing and explaining the scattered sentences. Over a period of approximately 30 months they collaborated in 450 sittings, he asking questions, she responding to fill a total of more than 3,600 pages.Quoting copiously from the Script, Harper has traced in two volumes these incredible experiments day by day as the Yeatses moved about England, Ireland, and America. He has also cited hundreds of parallel...

According to Yeats, his wife surprised him on 24 October 1917, four days after their marriage, by attempting automatic writing. Excited, he offered to spend the remainder of his life organizing and explaining the scattered sentences. Over a period of approximately 30 months they collaborated in 450 sittings, he asking questions, she responding to fill a total of more than 3,600 pages.Quoting copiously from the Script, Harper has traced in two volumes these incredible experiments day by day as the Yeatses moved about England, Ireland, and America. He has also cited hundreds of parallel...