W. B. Yeats and the Muses explores how Yeats perceived the women to and about whom he wrote some of his greatest poetry in terms akin to the Greek notion that a poet is inspired and possessed by the feminine voices of the Muses.
Ulysses" was convicted of obscenity in 1921, until its eventual publication in 1936, the book ran the gamut of legal obstruction. Hassett chronicles that process.
