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W. B. YEATS, A LIFE I
THE APPRENTICE MAGE 1865-1914 |
| By: |
R. F. Foster |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£35.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0192880853 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780192880857 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 1998 |
| Pages: |
704 |
| Description: |
In this acclaimed new biography, Roy Foster describes Yeats's progress from childhood through a bohemian life of love-affairs, artistic development, and political involvements, to his 50th year. Drawing on a great archive of personal and contemporary material, Foster charts the growth of a poet's mind and of an astonishing personality, both of which were instrumental in the formation of a new and radicalized Irish nationalist identity. |
| Synopsis: |
In the first authorized biography of W. B. Yeats for over 50 years, Roy Foster brings new light to one of the most complex and fascinating lives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Working from a great archive of personal and contemporary material, he dramatically alters traditional perceptions to illuminate the poet's family history, relationships, politics, and art. From a childhood inheritance of declasse Irish Protestantism with strong nationalist sympathies, and an exceptional and talented family background, the narrative charts his development into a great poet. It ends in his 50th year with the controversies and disillusionment affecting his personal and public life at the time of the First World War. A bohemian life of uncertain finances, love-affairs, avant-garde friends and experiments with drugs and occultism prefaces his attempt to unite politics with high culture and his creation of an Irish national theatre. Constantly shifting between Dublin, Coole Park a |
| Illustrations: |
black and white plates, line drawings |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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