It's fascinating to see how a human being gradually falls into place to become a unique piece of the mozaic universe that we inhabit. I love the undiluted subjectivity of autobiographies. Also, now I feel like the trees are staring back at me.

The arch-modernists (Eliot, Pound, the Sitwells, say) and most of the Bloomsbury admired this book very much, and indeed, it's become the template for a different kind of memoires, a different approach to narrating the self.
Memoires like these are not intended to linearly, chronologically, tell all

I simply love Yeats' style, this book was so intense as a biography although I can't point to a certain moment as out of the ordinary, in a sense, but it is all amazing to read because it is simply rich in poetic descriptions and sentimentalities. Beautiful, interesting and fascinating read of one o

This book was referred to in the introduction to "Maud Gonne: A Servant of the Queen" and since I know very little about W.B. Yeat's life I thought an autobiography would be an interesting way to learn a bit about him through his own words (this is the first of several he wrote to cover the full spa

Yeats' memoirs of his early years. Especially interesting for his comments on Irish ghosts and spiritualism.