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The Art of Literary Biography, Part 5 of 7: Byron, Greene, and Yeats

Leland Lyons, Leslie Marchand, and Norman Sherry discuss their research  and writing practices and the issues they encounter as biographers of W. B. Yeats, Lord Byron (George Gordon), and Graham Greene, respectively. The scholars address the distinction between literary criticism and … Continue reading

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Mysticism and William Butler Yeats

George Mills Harper speaks with Kent Mullikin about the life and writing of William Butler Yeats, with an emphasis on Yeats’s interest in the occult, which included experiments with automatic writing, and the presence of spirits or “communications” in automatic … Continue reading

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