TY - BOOK AU - Ellmann, Richard AU - Ellmann, Richard TI - Yeats : : the man and the masks SN - 9780393008593 U1 - 821.8 ELL PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - : W.W. Norton & Company KW - English literatures KW - Old English literatures KW - Yeats, W. B. -- (William Butler), -- 1865-1939 KW - Yeats, William Butler -- 1865-1939 KW - Poets, Irish KW - Biografie KW - Poets, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography N1 - Fathers and sons -- Prelude -- Cloud and foam -- Combating the 'materialists' -- Robartes and Aherne: Two sides of a penny -- Michael Robartes and the golden dawn -- Owen Aherne and the nationalists -- Search for Unity -- Making a style -- End of youth -- New division -- Spirits and matter: Towards harmony -- All changed, changed utterly -- Esoteric Yeatsism: The flowering of a dream -- Sailing to Byzantium -- Right mastery of natural things -- Reality N2 - A critical biography of the great Irish poet traces his intellectual growth and relates his mystical concerns and involvement in public affairs to his poetry ER -