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W. B. Yeats: A Life II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939: Arch-poet 1915-1939 v. 2 Book

A biography of W B Yeats, it covers the second half of Yeats' 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. It also weaves together his life and work.Read More

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  • Foyles

    The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a crossroads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The Arch-Poet takes in his rediscovery of advanced nationalism and his struggle for an independent Irish culture, his continued pursuit of supernatural truths through occult experimentation, his extraordinary marriage, and a series of tumultuous love affairs. Throughout he was writing his greatest poems: 'The Fisherman' and 'The Wild Swans at Coole' in their stark simplicity; the magnificently complex sequences on the Troubles and Civil War; the Byzantium poems; and the radically compressed last work - some of it literally written on his deathbed. The drama of his life is mapped against the history of the Irish revolution and the new Irish state founded in 1922. Yeats's many political roles and his controversial involvement in a right-wing movement during the early 1930s are covered more closely than ever before, and his complex and passionate relationship with the developing history of his country remains a central theme. Throughout this book, the genesis, alteration, and presentation of his work (memoirs and polemic as well as poetry) is explored through his private and public life. The enormous and varied circle of Yeats's friends, lovers, family, collaborators, and antagonists inhabit and enrich a personal world of astounding energy, artistic commitment, and verve. Yeats constantly re-created himself and his work, believing that art was 'not the chief end of life but an accident in one's search for reality': a search which brought him again and again back to his governing preoccupations: sex and death. He also held that 'all knowledge is biography', a belief reflected in this study of one of the greatest lives of modern times.

  • ASDA

    A biography of W B Yeats it covers the second half of Yeats' 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. It also weaves together his life and work.

  • Blackwell

    Based on complete and unprecedented access to Yeats's papers and written with extraordinary grace and insight, W.B. Yeats: A Life offers the fullest portrait yet of the private and public life of one of the 20th century's greatest poets.

  • 0192806092
  • 9780192806093
  • R. F. Foster
  • 17 March 2005
  • Oxford University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 824
  • illustrated edition
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