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W. B. Yeats: A Life Volume II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 (Wb Yeats a Life) (v. 2)
R. F. Foster
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Description for W. B. Yeats: A Life Volume II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 (Wb Yeats a Life) (v. 2)
Paperback. A biography of W B Yeats, it covers the second half of Yeats' life, taking in his controversial political involvements, continued supernatural experiments, his extraordinary marriage, a series of love affairs, and the writing of his greatest poetry. It also weaves together his life and work. Num Pages: 832 pages, 32pp halftone plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1306. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains very good
The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a crossroads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The Arch-Poet takes in his rediscovery of advanced nationalism and his struggle for an independent Irish culture, his continued pursuit of supernatural truths through occult experimentation, his extraordinary marriage, and a series of tumultuous love affairs. Throughout he was writing his greatest poems: 'The Fisherman' and 'The Wild Swans at Coole' in their stark simplicity; the magnificently complex sequences on the Troubles and Civil War; the Byzantium poems; and the radically ... Read more
The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a crossroads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The Arch-Poet takes in his rediscovery of advanced nationalism and his struggle for an independent Irish culture, his continued pursuit of supernatural truths through occult experimentation, his extraordinary marriage, and a series of tumultuous love affairs. Throughout he was writing his greatest poems: 'The Fisherman' and 'The Wild Swans at Coole' in their stark simplicity; the magnificently complex sequences on the Troubles and Civil War; the Byzantium poems; and the radically ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
856
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192806093
SKU
KSG0024921
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99-1
About R. F. Foster
Roy Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford, and a fellow of Hertford College. He has written widely on Irish history, society, and politics in the modern period, as well as on Victorian high politics and culture, and his publications include Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life (Oxford, 1981), Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (London, 1988), and ... Read more
Reviews for W. B. Yeats: A Life Volume II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 (Wb Yeats a Life) (v. 2)
Foster, a historian with a great literary sensibility, masterfully tells the story of W.B. Yeats, and the whole landscape of the poet emerges afresh.
Ken'ichi Matsumura, Journal of Irish Studies
Magnificent biography. The Arch-Poet completes a brilliant work of historical and literary investigation. It is incisive wothout being judgmental, cautionary without being caustic and, above all, a compelling ... Read more
Ken'ichi Matsumura, Journal of Irish Studies
Magnificent biography. The Arch-Poet completes a brilliant work of historical and literary investigation. It is incisive wothout being judgmental, cautionary without being caustic and, above all, a compelling ... Read more