SOURCE: "A Half Century of the High Poetic Art of William Butler Yeats," in The New York Herald Tribune Book Review, Vol. 27, No. 38, May 6, 1951, p. 3.
In the following review, Stauffer praises The Collected Poems and briefly summarizes Yeats's poetic career, observing that in his poems, Yeats champions the integrity of the individual against society's pressure to reform.
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