The Divine Vision and Other Poems (Esprios Classics)

George William Russell (10 April 1867 - 17 July 1935) who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (sometimes written AE or A. E.) was an Irish writer editor critic poet painter and Irish nationalist. He was also a writer on mysticism and a central figure in the group of devotees of theosophy which met in Dublin for many years. His first book of poems Homeward: Songs by the Way (1894) established him in what was known as the Irish Literary Revival where Æ met the young James Joyce in 1902 and introduced him to other Irish literary figures including William Butler Yeats. He appears as a character in the Scylla and Charybdis episode of Joyce's Ulysses where he dismisses Stephen's theories on Shakespeare.