W.B.Yeats: The Man and the Milieu - Softcover

Alldritt, Keith

9780719554209: W.B.Yeats: The Man and the Milieu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719554209 ISBN 13: 9780719554209

Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1998

Often aggressive, Yeats had the gift of subordinating himself in relationships with those who could enrich his mind, his art, and his career. This biography reveals this side of his character, showing a man propelled by an energy in himself and in the Irish society of his times.

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Review:

Like R.F. Foster in W.B. Yeats: A Life, Canadian scholar Keith Alldritt concentrates on Yeats' public activities and relationships with others. (The poet's interior struggles and creativity are amply considered in Yeats' memoirs and Richard Ellmann's critical biography.) Alldritt's succinct work covers his entire life in broad strokes and links Yeats to developments in Europe as well as Ireland. His Yeats is no dreamy mystic, but a "brawler and scrapper", an ambitious careerist preoccupied with status and money--very human and accessible to the general reader.

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full-scale biography of William Butler Yeats in more than 45 years, Keith Alldritt radically alters the traditional portrait of one of the greatest and most beloved poets of the 20th century. Placing Yeats within the context of his times, he reveals the determined careerist, shrewd manipulator, and political operator behind Yeats' familiar image as a dreamer, idealist and mystic. 16-page photo insert.

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