W.B. Yeats's Robartes-Aherne writings: featuring the making of his "stories of Michael Robartes and his friends"

The figures of Michael Robartes and Owen Aherne appear throughout the writing of the great Irish poet W.B.

Yeats, featuring in his poems, short fictions, dialogues and as authorities in notes to his work.

Bringing together into one volume published and unpublished writings featuring these two enigmatic figures, it traces their history and the development of Yeats's mystical thought that culminated in the publication of his visionary work 'A Vision'.