Joseph M. Hassett | The Lilliput Press
188 pages – €15.00 (Available on Amazon, $16.95, May 1, 2021)
Langan’s Book Mark: 4/4 Stars
This is a handsome and stylish book, both in looks and, more importantly, in its capacity to appreciate the magic of William Butler Yeats’s poetry. It’s written by Joseph M. Hassett, the careful scholar who has penned two important books about him and his poetry and now a third, Yeats Now.
Joseph Hassett has written extensively on Yeats, as well as on Joyce and other Irish writers. He has a Ph.D. in Anglo-Irish Literature from University College Dublin and is a graduate of Canisius College and Harvard Law School. His previous publications include Yeats and the Poetics of Hate, 1986; W. B. Yeats and the Muses (Oxford University Press, 2010); and “The Ulysses Trials: Beauty and Truth Meet the Law (Lilliput, 2016.)
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