“Secret Communion”
Yeats’s Sexual Destiny
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20063180 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Harwood (0000-0001-6442-9541, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Pages | 252-280 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Yeats and Women (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-25822-2_8 |
| OpenAlex | W2497395015 |
| ISBN | 9781349258222 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
Yeats, said Richard Ellmann, “explicitly asked for candid biography”. He cited Yeats’s revelations about Lionel Johnson’s alcoholism in the 1909 lecture “Friends of My Youth”: “I would wish to be spoken of with just such candour when I am dead.”1 Though not before. When Austin Clarke, who was contemplating a biography of Yeats in June 1936, nervously broached the question of Maud Gonne with his prospective subject, the response was a stern “Sir, do you seek to pry into my private life?”2 Yeats added more kindly that one must not give offence to the living
Art · Biography · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Stern · Wish · Engineering · History · Irish and British Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2021 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |