Autobiographies Chapter Summary & Analysis - The Trembling of the Veil, Book V. The Stirring of the Bones, Summary

The Trembling of the Veil, Book V. The Stirring of the Bones, Summary and Analysis

Yeats found himself in a position in 1897 to protect the activist Maud Gonne from fellow activists when she received permission to travel to America to do a lecture tour. To do this, Yeats accepted the Presidency of the '98 Commemoration Association of Great Britain. It was a post Yeats did not enjoy. When Maud Gonne returned to Ireland she became the leader of this young group of Irish activists. The group was joined by a group of anti-Parnellites of whom Yeats knew little. A short time later, Yeats and a member of this group met with Parliament members to talk out the question of separate identification. Among this group was Michael Davitt, a man who was bored by these negotiations and claimed to have been close to recovering much of Scotland as it was still Gaelic if it had not been for the split in the Irish party. Davitt...
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