"After Yeats’ death I bought for a Jesuit library some of his fine volumes of Classical texts and secondary literature in Greens bookshop in Kildare Street. I do not remember if Stephen MacKenna’s translation of Plotinus On Beauty, which Yeats used extensively in his discourses to duchesses in London, was among them."

Irish philosopher #JohnOMeara muses on the appeal of neoPlatonism to the Irish.

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/05/01/neoplatonism-irish-omeara/

#IrishPhilosophy #Yeats