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It Takes Two.(Wisdom for Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats)(Book review)
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March 22, 2007
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MARGARET MILLS HARPER Wisdom For Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats. Oxford University Press, 2006, $99.00
STUDYING THE OCCULT INTERESTS of William Butler Yeats seems to have been something of a Harper family cottage industry for many decades now, as Margaret Mills Harper's dedication and preface to this volume make clear. Her father was, of course, George Mills Harper, author of The Making of Yeats's "Vision, "and editor of Yeats's "Vision" Papers, along with his daughter. Ordinarily one wouldn't want to appear to be detracting from the second generation's accomplishment by bringing up the illustrious parent, but the family history ...
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