W. B. Yeats's The Trembling of the Veil is a searching memoir of artistic awakening set against a troubled cultural age. In these recollections, Yeats looks back on the people, places, and quarrels that shaped his youth, from the fading romantic world of Bedford Park in late-1880s London to the bohemian and political circles of Dublin. He traces the making of his imagination through Pre-Raphaelite painting, Rossetti, and Blake, revealing a young man who sought in art a new religion of myth, beauty, and supernatural meaning. Around him gather vivid presences: Todhunter, York Powell, Florence Farr, Heron Allen, W. E. Henley, Oscar Wilde, Maud Gonne, and Parnell. Some inspire him through performance, wit, or force of character; others expose the tensions between inward conviction and public success, poetry and practicality, genius and society. Yeats also records failed cultural schemes, factional rivalries, and Dublin's stifling public life, yet through it all he pursues the elusive ideal of an artistic fellowship strong enough to transform both art and life. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.