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Night Waves

on BBC Radio 3

Though numerous books and articles have been published on his life and work, WB Yeats remains one of the most elusive and paradoxical characters in literary history. Auden saw him as great and silly, and both characteristics emerge strongly in George's Ghosts, a new book by acclaimed biographer
Brenda Maddox. She joins Patrick Wright to discuss her account of Yeats's last decades, when he married a young Englishwoman, made contact with "Instructors" from an unseen world, and produced some of his greatest and most disturbing verse. Producer Zahid Warley

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Brenda Maddox.
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Patrick Wright
Producer:
Zahid Warley

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