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THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF W. B. YEATS
VOLUME IV, 1905-1907 |
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W. B. Yeats, John Kelly (Editor), Ronald Schuchard (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£297.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198126840 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198126843 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 December, 2005 |
| Series: |
Yeats Collected Letters Series 4 |
| Pages: |
1192 |
| Description: |
This volume covers a tumultuous period in Yeats's public and personal life, beginning with the acrimonious collapse of Maud Gonne's marriage to Major MacBride (who not only accused Yeats of being her lover but also threatened to shoot him), and encompassing the fiery disputes in the Abbey Theatre as it changed from an amateur society into a professional company. Through all this, we see Yeats maturing as an artist: writing and revising poems and plays, and preparingan eight-volume Collected Works through which he hoped to define his artistic personality. The letters not only record an energetic and bruising period, but also bear witness to Yeats's indomitable fighting spirit and artistic integrity. |
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This volume covers a tumultuous period in Yeats's public and personal life, beginning with the acrimonious collapse of Maud Gonne's marriage to Major MacBride (who not only accused Yeats of being her lover but also threatened to shoot him). Dramas at the Abbey Theatre were hardly less intense, both on and off the stage: the euphoria which followed the successful opening of the new theatre quickly dispersed in a relentless cycle of quarrels and schisms. Yeats's attempts to turn an enthusiastic but ill-disciplined amateur society into a professional company led to a permanent division in the company, while the vagaries of Annie Horniman, the irascible patron of the theatre, put the whole movement under permanent tension. Violence actually broke out in January 1907 when the audience rioted at the production of John Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, believing it to be a libel on Ireland. Through all this we see Yeats maturing as an artist: discussing the writing and revising of his poems and plays, preparing the first elaborate American edition of his poems, and undertaking an ambitious eight-volume Collected Works through which he hoped to define his artistic personality.The letters not only record this energetic and often bruising period, but also bear witness to Yeats's indomitable fighting spirit and artistic integrity. |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Awarded the ninth Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished |
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