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W. B. Yeats, A Life: 2-volume pack Book

There are several biographies of the great Irish poet to choose from, and the one you'll prefer depends on how much biography you want. Subtitled "The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914," this is the one for completists (though they'll have to wait for Volume Two to get through Yeats's death in 1939). The author, a noted Irish historian, renders Yeats's life almost day to day, giving a particularly lively sense of the helter-skelter nature of his early years and a nice depiction of his tumultuous engagement with the Abbey Theatre.Read More

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    "Volume I: The Apprentice Mage" describes W. B. Yeats's progress from childhood through a bohemian life of love-affairs, artistic development, and political involvements, to his fiftieth 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. "Volume II: The Arch-Poet", the second and final volume in R. F. Foster's acclaimed biography, covers the second half of W. B. Yeats's 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. Life and work are woven closely together to create a rich, new, uniquely authoritative, and immensely involving treatment of one of the greatest lives of modern times.

  • 019280717X
  • 9780192807175
  • R. F. Foster
  • 20 October 2005
  • OUP Oxford
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 497
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