W.B. Yeats: A Literary Life
This is not a straightforward biography but rather an attempt to describe and examine Yeats as a phenomenon, partly shaped by forces and movements around him and partly shaping the public events of his time. His position in literary, political and cultural matters is detailed and the book offers, through the study of Yeats, an introduction to the fashions of ideas between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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W.B. Yeats: A Literary Life
This is not a straightforward biography but rather an attempt to describe and examine Yeats as a phenomenon, partly shaped by forces and movements around him and partly shaping the public events of his time. His position in literary, political and cultural matters is detailed and the book offers, through the study of Yeats, an introduction to the fashions of ideas between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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W.B. Yeats: A Literary Life

W.B. Yeats: A Literary Life

by Alasdair D.F. Macrae
W.B. Yeats: A Literary Life

W.B. Yeats: A Literary Life

by Alasdair D.F. Macrae

Paperback(1995)

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This is not a straightforward biography but rather an attempt to describe and examine Yeats as a phenomenon, partly shaped by forces and movements around him and partly shaping the public events of his time. His position in literary, political and cultural matters is detailed and the book offers, through the study of Yeats, an introduction to the fashions of ideas between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333420508
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 11/14/1994
Series: Literary Lives
Edition description: 1995
Pages: 204
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface - Acknowledgements - Chronology: Yeats's Life and Contemporary Events - Introduction - Family and Place - Yeats and the 1890s: Celtic Twilight and Golden Dawn - Yeats and Politics - Yeats and the Theatre: 'Baptism of the Gutter' - Friends and Loves - Masks and Development - A Vision of Byzantium - Yeats and Modern Poetry - Notes - Selected Bibliography - Index
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