William Butler Yeats

Of what other modern poet can it be said that he never repeated himself but over the span of a long and eventful life continued to fashion his ever more complex and seemingly prosaic experiences into a verse of indisputable and enduring significance? --Stephen I. Gurney, Images of Yeats, Modern Age, Winter 1988

The anatomy of Yeats's inventions by William H. Pritchard, review of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form by Helen Vendler, The Boston Globe, February 17, 2008 (via Arts & Letters Daily)

The Second Coming by Cathleen Kaveny, dotCommonweal, May 21, 2007, 10:46 am

On A Green Knoll Apart by John Derbyshire, review of W.B. Yeats: A Life—Vol. II: The Arch-Poet by R.F. Foster, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2004

Everything and Nothing in Yeats by Brian Phillips, Hudson Review, Spring 2004

The Greatest? review by Jeffrey Hart of W. B. Yeats: A Life, II: The Arch-Poet by R. F. Foster, National Review, February 23, 2004

Slogging to Byzantium, review by Clive James of W. B. Yeats: A Life: The Arch-Poet, 1915, 1939, The Spectator, October 4, 2003