W B Yeats A Life Vol 2 The Arch Poet 1915 1939 1st Edition by Foster 0198184654 9780198184652

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ISBN 10: 0198184654 

ISBN 13: 9780198184652

Author: R. F. Foster

Volume 2: The first volume in Roy Foster’s magisterial biography of W.B. Yeats was hailed as “a work of huge significance” (The Atlantic Monthly) and “a stupendous historiographical feat” (Irish Sunday Independent). Now, the eagerly awaited second volume explores the complex poetic, political, and personal intricacies of Yeats’s dramatic final decades, a period that saw the Easter Rebellion, the founding of the Irish state in 1922, and the production of Yeats’s greatest masterpieces. In the conclusion of this first fully authorized biography, Foster brilliantly illuminates the circumstances — the rich internal and external experiences — that shaped the great poetry of Yeats’s later years: “The Wild Swans at Coole,” “Sailing to Byzantium,” “The Tower,” “The Circus Animals Desertion,” “Under Ben Bulben,” and many others. Yeats’s pursuit of Irish nationalism and an independent Irish culture, his continued search for supernatural truths through occult experimentation, his extraordinary marriage, a series of tempestuous love affairs, and his lingering obsession with Maud Gonne are all explored here with a nuance and awareness rare in literary biography. Foster gives us the very texture of Yeats’s life and thought, revealing the many ways he made poetry out of the “quarrel” with himself and the upheaval around him. But this consummate biography also shows that Yeats was much more than simply a lyric poet and examines in great detail Yeats’s non-poetic work–his essays, plays, polemics, and memoirs. 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; while the poet himself is shown returning again and again to his governing preoccupations, sex and death. 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 twentieth century’s greatest poets

Table of contents:

The arch-poet, 1915-1939.
Introduction : Accidence and coherence
Prologue : Crossways
Accomplishment and Noh 1915-1916
Shades and angels 1916-1917
The sense of happiness 1917-1919
A feeling for revelation 1919-1920
‘Weight and measure in a time of dearth’ 1920-1921
Living in the explosion 1922-1924
Bad writers and bishops 1924-1925
Vanity and pride 1925-1927
Striking a match 1927-1930
One last burial 1930-1932
Struggles toward reality 1932-1933
A new fanaticism 1933-1934
Passionate metaphysics 1934-1935
Fire and eating 1936-1937
Folly and elegance 1937-1938
Dying like an empire 1938-1939
Epilogue : Genius and history

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