Edition of W.B. Yeats' Unpublished Novel, The Specked Bird

FAIN: RE-10134-73

Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA 16802-1503)
William H. O'Donnell (Project Director: June 1973 to present)

To cover the final phase of preparing a scholarly edition of William Butler Yeats' unpublished, autobiographical novel, The Speckled Bird. The novel's central theme, the irreconcilable conflict between artist idealism and contemporary occultism, had great signficance in Yeats own life.