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Understanding the poetry of William Butler Yeats

15 January A Vision delivered to subscribers.
Estrangement

Autobi ographies




1927 October Blast
November Visits Algeciras, Seville, and Cannes.




1928 The Tower
Sophocles' King Oedipus

The Death of Synge

Resigns from the Senate.

Winters in Rapallo.




1929 A Packet for Ezra Pound
The Winding Stair

Decemberearly 1930 Suffers Malta fever in Rapallo.

1930 Meets Virginia Woolf and Walter de la Mare.


17 November The Words upon the Window Pane produced at the

Abbey.




1931 Receives honorary degree from Oxford.
Arranges an Edition de Luxe with Macmillan, London.

1932 Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends
22 May Death of Lady Gregory.

Moves to Rathfarnam, Dublin.

Words for Music Perhaps

OctoberJanuary American lecture tour.




1933 The Winding Stair and Other Poems
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats




1934 Letters to the New Island
April Undergoes Steinach operation in London.

Wheels and Butterflies

The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats

The King of the Great Clock Tower




1935 17 July Death of George Russell (AE).
A Full Moon in March

Dramatis Personae

Arranges for the Dublin Edition with Charles Scribner's Sons, New

York.




1936 January Illness in Majorca.
Edits The Oxford Book of Modern Verse.




1937 Revised edition of A Vision.
Essays, 19311936

Writes Introductions for Scribner Edition.

29 December New constitution for E ire comes into effect.




1938 The Herne's Egg
New Poems

10 August Purgatory produced at the Abbey Theatre.

Death of Olivia Shakespear.




1939 28 January Dies and is buried at Roquebrune, France.
Last Poems and Two Plays

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