W.B YEATS A LIFE VOLUME 1 THE APPRENTICE MAGE VOLUME 2 THE ARCH POET

FOSTER R.F

ISBN 10: 0192117351 / ISBN 13: 9780192117359

Published by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD NEW YORK, 1997

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TWO VOLUME SET THE FIRST AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF YEATS FOR 50 YEARS AN EXHAUSTIVE STUDY OF YEATS' LIFE FROM HIS CHILDHOOD TO HIS DEMISE A DRAMATIC ALTERING OF THE PUBLICS PERCEPTION OF YEATS' AND HIS LIFE AND FAMILY BOTH BOOKS ARE AS NEW AND APPEAR UNREAD VOLUME 1 IS A FIRST PRINTING VOLUME 2 IS A SECOND PRINTING BOTH COME IN FINE BRIGHT COMPLETE JACKETS A VERY SMALL CURL TO OF JACKET ON VOLUME ONE ORIGINAL PRICE ON VOLUME 1 IS 35.00 VOLUME 2 IS 30 POUNDS A GRAND AS NEW SET EXTRA POSTAGE OVERSEAS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: W.B YEATS A LIFE VOLUME 1 THE APPRENTICE MAGE VOLUME 2 THE ARCH POET
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD NEW YORK
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192117351
• ISBN 13: 9780192117359
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: PHOTOS
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

In the first authorized biography of W. B. Yeats for over fifty years, Roy Foster sheds new light on one of the most complex and fascinating lives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Working from a great archive of personal and contemporary material, he dramatically alters traditional perceptions to illuminate the poet's family history, relationships, politics and art. From a childhood inheritance of déclassé Irish Protestantism with strong nationalist sympathies, and an exceptional and talented family background, the narrative charts Yeats's development into an original and outstanding poet. It ends in his fiftieth year with the controversies and disillusionment affecting his personal and public life at the time of the First World War. A bohemian life of uncertain finances, love-affairs, avant-garde friends and experiments with drugs and occultism prefaces his attempt to unite politics with high culture and his creation of an Irish national theatre. Constantly shifting between Dublin, Coole Park and London, with forays to America and Paris, ruthlessly constructing a public life as well as a creative reputation, Yeats's genius attracted admirers and enemies with equal passion. His story intersects with those of an engrossing cast of characters including Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, George Moore, `AE', Ezra Pound and above all Maud Gonne - an influence eternally re-created `like the phoenix', affecting almost everything he did. The search for supernatural wisdom forms a constant thread, traced through Yeats's occult notebooks and closely related to the insecurities of his personal life. The Apprentice Mage 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.

About the Author

R.F. Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History, Hertford College, Oxford. His books include Modern Ireland 1600-1972, The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland, and acclaimed biographies of Charles Stewart Parnell and Lord Randolph Churchill.