The Life Of W B Yeats

Author : Terence Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631182985
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of W. B. Yeats written by Terence Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2000-01-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as public figure.

Author : Robert Fitzroy Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198184652
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book W.B. Yeats: The arch-poet, 1915-1939 written by Robert Fitzroy Foster and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life of the Irish poet and nationalist, describes his relationships with his contemporaries, and traces his interest in the occult.

Author : Robert Fitzroy Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192880857
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book W.B. Yeats written by Robert Fitzroy Foster and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myself Must I Remake written by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Irish poet, dramatist, and essayist generally considered the most important poet in English of his time.

Author : Kevin Connolly
Publisher : The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788491130
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arise And Go written by Kevin Connolly and published by The O'Brien Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Brenda Maddox
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780060985042
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yeats's Ghosts written by Brenda Maddox and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-09-19 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333735435
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autobiographies written by William Butler Yeats and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher : Scribner Paper Fiction
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats written by William Butler Yeats and published by Scribner Paper Fiction. This book was released on 1965 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher : NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781853264030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of W. B. Yeats written by William Butler Yeats and published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs [of] W. B. Yeats: Autobiography [and] First Draft Journal written by William Butler Yeats and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1st draft of Autobiography written 1915-1916; Journal written 1908-1930.