A re-analysis of W. B. Yeats's most difficult poetry, showing how it was edited to remove all traces of his Catholic lover, Lily O'Neill, and an illegitimate son. This book clearly shows that he was not writing about his wife George, or about Maud or Iseult Gonne. despite the insistence of present-day critics. Find out how Yeats's wife manipulated him into denying all knowledge of his 'most exalted lady' and his first-born son.