W.B. Yeats went to great lengths to design his self-image which
biographers have been slow to challenge. Following on from "Blood
Kindred" (2005), Mc Cormack's new study of the poet's idealist
views concentrates on the role of J.M. Hone in introducing him to
George Berkeley's philosophy in the mid 1920s and to contemporary
Italian thinkers such as Giovanni Gentile and Mario Manlio Rossi.
The notion of sacrifice is examined and, by way of contrast, work
by Synge, George Moore and Samuel Beckett is shown to challenge the
demand for sacrifice which underlies many powerful philosophies of
culture. This is a detailed and yet wide-ranging critique of
twentieth-century Irish literature, illuminating both well-known
and obscure figures.
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