Representative Irish Tales - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0901072842 ISBN 13: 9780901072849

Publisher: Colin Smythe Ltd, 1979

Synopsis

A fine selection of Irish fiction, as representative of Yeats himself as it is of Irish novelists. Yeats' introductory commentary and notes provide an interesting perspective on a relatively unknown but influential phase of his early work. He wrote that

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Product Description

Published in 1891 and long out of print, this anthology offers not only a fine selection of tales by Maria Edgeworth, William Carleton, Samuel Lover, Charles Lever and others, but a fascinating insight into WB Yeatss formative years.

About the Author

W B Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1865 and spent much of his childhood in County Sligo, a place he loved and often wrote about. Yeats is often said to be a man of contradictions: he was profoundly intelligent and yet committed to spiritualism and the supernatural; he was philosophical and yet emotionally bound to a woman who did not return his devotion; he was aristocratic and detached and yet motivated by and artistically concerned with the most elementary of human impulses. In 1922 he was elected a senator of the Irish Free Republic and the following year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. W B Yeats is remembered as an important cultural leader and as one of the greatest poets of the century. He died in 1939.

Edition details

• Publisher: Colin Smythe Ltd
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0901072842
• ISBN 13: 9780901072849
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: Yeats W. B.