The Life of W.B. Yeats, by Terence Brown, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 384 pages, $39.50
W.B. Yeats: A Life: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914, by R.F. Foster, New York: Oxford University Press, 672 pages, $21.50
Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats, by Brenda Maddox, New York: HarperPerennial, 496 pages, $16