In the years after his death, the Yeats family donated a large and invaluable collection of W.B. Yeats' manuscripts to the National Library of Ireland. This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, is designed to celebrate that collection and to publish a small selection of its treasures. The focus of the book, brought together by three of the Yeats Exhibition's curators, is on the life of W.B. Yeats. It presents a succinct account of his works and days, richly illustrated with photographs and reproductions of paintings, manuscripts and books, many drawn from the National Library's Yeats Collection. It is a perfect momento of the Yeats Exhibition, the biggest exhibition devoted to Yeats and his work ever mounted in Ireland.