The lost account of a memorable evening with the poet is to be published after years in a dusty drawerIt’s a account that has lain hidden in a plastic bag at the back of a dusty drawer and forgotten for more than 40 years before being uncovered,alongside faded letters and old diaries – a description of an extraordinary encounter between an art teacher and WB Yeats during a debate on methods to restore sexual potency.
Now Avies Platt’s account of her assembly and subsequent evening with the poet is set to be published in the London Review of Books. Platt, an art mistress at Wellingborough County High School for Girls in Northamptonshire, or was in her early 40s when she met the 72-year-old Yeats at an open assembly of the Sex Education Society,a group headed by controversial sexologist Norman Haire – best-known for his practice of the Steinach rejuvenation operation, a semi-vasectomy which he believed could combat the effects of old age and restore sexual potency.
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Source: theguardian.com