This is a detailed textual and critical study of all Yeats"s important autobiographical prose, concentrating on the book ^IAutobiographies but considering other texts as well. Contents: Introduction; John Sherman and^R The Speckled Bird; Reveries Over Childhood and Youth; The Trembling of the Veil; Dramatis Personae; Estrangement and The Death of Synge; The Bounty of Sweden; Conclusion