Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy), 1949-
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS xiv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xv FOREWORD xix FAMILY TREES xx INTRODUCTION XXV PROLOGUE Yeatses and Pollexfens I Chapter I The Artist's Children: Sligo 1865-1881 6 2 Explorations: Dublin 1881-1887 28 3 Two Years: Bedford Park 1887-1889 59 4 Secret Societies 1889-1891 89 5 The Battles of the Books 1889-1893 112 6 Lands of Heart's Desire 1894-1896 135 7 NValting for the Millennium 1896-1898 162 8 Shadowy Waters 1898-1900 201 9 Occult Politics 1900-1901 225 10 National Dramas 1901-1902 257 11 The Taste of Salt 1902-1903 282 12 From America to Abbey Street 1903-1904 304 13 Delighting in Enemies 1905-1906 330 14 Synge and the Ireland of His Time 1907-1909 359 15 Severances 1909-1910 402 16 True and False Irelands 1910-1911 433 17 Ghosts 1911-1913 453 18 Memory Harbour 1913-1914 492 APPENDIX:'The Poet Yeats Talks Drama with Ashton Stevens', from the San Francisco Examiner, 30 January 1904 533 ABBREVIATIONS 539 NOTES 542 INDEX 626