Description

This wonderful book maps the time the great Irish poet W.B. Yeats lived in Howth, his attempts to make his work catch fire, and his struggle to become an artist. The book reveals the enduring influence this Dublin location had on his work. And it explores the young writer’s supernatural interests, his fledgling verse, and his proximity to madness. It recalls encounters with his first love Laura Armstrong, and captures moments of profound poetic inspiration and fragile beauty such as Yeats’s legendary sea cliff walk with his great unrequited love Maud Gonne – in a poetic landscape fit for eternity’s ghosts