Author: Terence BrownPublisher: Gill & MacMillan
ISBN: 9780717132485
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This biography of Ireland's greatest poet does not simply tell the story of his life - it explains it.
The Life of W. B. Yeats
Author: Terence BrownPublisher: Gill & MacMillan
ISBN: 9780717132485
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This biography of Ireland's greatest poet does not simply tell the story of his life - it explains it.
W.B. Yeats: The arch-poet, 1915-1939
Author: Robert Fitzroy FosterPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198184652
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Recounts the life of the Irish poet and nationalist, describes his relationships with his contemporaries, and traces his interest in the occult.
W.B. Yeats
Author: Robert Fitzroy FosterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780192880857
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
William Butler Yeats has cast his long shadow over the history of both modern poetry and modern Ireland for so long that his preeminence is taken for granted. Now, in the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over fifty years, leading Irish historian R.F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet to restore a real sense of Yeats's extraordinary life as Yeats himself experienced it--what he saw, what he did, the passions and the petty squabbles that consumed him, and his alchemical ability to transmute the events of his crowded and contradictory life into enduring art. In the first volume of this long-awaited biography, Foster covers the poet's first fifty years, bringing new light to bear on Yeats's heroic and often ruthless efforts to invent himself as a poet and public figure. Drawn from a fascinating archive of personal and contemporary documents with the cooperation of surviving members of the Yeats family, it dramatically alters long-held assumptions about the poet's background, his relationship with Maud Gonne and other women, and his roles in the great cultural and political upheavals that transformed Ireland in his lifetime. A rich and entertaining account of Yeats's boyhood days amidst the talented but troubled members of the Yeats and Pollexfen clans provides important insight into the poet's deep and lifelong connection to the Irish landscape, his early, impassioned embrace of the nationalist cause, and his later retreat to the traditions of the once grand Protestant aristocracy. In his own day Yeats attracted enemies and admirers with equal passion, and Foster vividly recreates the friendships, love affairs, and simmering rivalries that swirled about the poet's circles in London, Dublin, and Coole Park. Complementing his meticulous scholarship with a shrewd wit and a novelist's eye for detail, he chronicles the romantic disappointments, financial difficulties, experimentation with hashish and mescal, and the growing preoccupation with the occult that prefaced Yeats's attempt to unite Irish politics with high culture and his creation of an Irish national theater. Here are the poet's memorable encounters with many of the most interesting people of his time, including Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and the wildly diverse leaders of the Irish independence movement. And here at last is a full accounting of the complex bond between Yeats and the incomparable Maud Gonne, revealed as an influence eternally recreated 'like the phoenix,' affecting almost everything he did. Poet, playwright, mystic and revolutionary; lover, confidant, and friend. This brilliant account of the public and private lives of William Butler Yeats illuminates not only the wellspring of his artistic vision, but the modern Irish identity he helped to create. It is essential reading for anyone intrigued by one of the most original and influential voices of the twentieth century.
The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats
Author: William Butler YeatsArise And Go
Author: Kevin ConnollyPublisher: The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN: 1788491130
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book focuses on his time in Dublin, London, Sligo and elsewhere in the west of Ireland, embracing the homes, landscapes and people that impacted his life and stimulated his vast body of work. Meet the poet's father, the struggling artist John Butler Yeats; his mother Susan, the well-to-do Sligo girl who had no choice but to follow her husband's path; his five siblings: Lily and Lolly, guiding lights in the Irish Arts and Crafts movement; Jack, the renowned painter; and Bobbie and Jane Grace, who died in infancy. Meet William Morris, John O'Leary, Katharine Tynan, George Moore, Oscar Wilde, Lady Gregory, Douglas Hyde, George Hyde-Lees, and, of course, Maud Gonne, as well as countless others who helped weave the cloth of Yeats's poetic gift.
Yeats's Ghosts
Author: Brenda MaddoxPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780060985042
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
William Butter Yeats, who some critics feel was the greatest English language poet of our century, led a life of many contradictions. He was Ireland's most revered writer and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. But in his private life, Yeats struggled with passionate, if unrequited, relationships with women and was haunted by the spirits of his ancestors. Renowned biographer Brenda Maddox examines the poet's life through the prism of his personal obsession with the supernatural and otherworldly. She considers for the first time the Automatic Script, the trancelike communication with supposed spirits that he and his much younger wife. Georgie, conducted during the early years of their marriage. Writing with edge, wit, and energy, she finds the essential clues to Yeats's life and work in his unusual relationships with women, most particularly Maude and Iseult Gonne, his wife Georgie, and his rarely discussed mother.
The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Yeats
Author: Richard EllmannPublisher:
ISBN: 9781774640500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The definitive biography of William Butler Yeats The most influential poet of his age, Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him. In this classic critical examination of the poet, Richard Ellmann strips away the masks of his subject: occultist, senator of the Irish Free State, libidinous old man, and Nobel Prize winner.
Myself Must I Remake
Author: Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A biography of the Irish poet, dramatist, and essayist generally considered the most important poet in English of his time.
Autobiographies
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780333735435
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Autobiographies is made up of six autobiographical works that Yeats published in the mid 1930s. Together, they provide a fascinating insight into the first 58 years of his life. The work provides memories of his early childhood, through to his experience of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. The volume contains explanatory notes and previously unpublished passages from candidly explicit first drafts.