The Life of W. B. Yeats A Critical Biography

by Brown, Terence

• ISBN13: 9780631182986
• ISBN10: 0631182985
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as public figure.

Author Biography

Terence Brown is Professor of Anglo-Irish literature in Trinity College, Dublin and a Fellow of the College. He is also a member of the Royal Irish Academy and of the Academia Europaea, and has lectured widely on Irish literature and on Irish cultural history. Among his books are studies of Louis MacNeice and of Northern Irish poetry. His numerous publications include Ireland: A Social and Cultural History (1985) and Ireland's Literature: Selected Essays (1988). He is also editor of Derek Mahon: Journalism (1996) and Celticism (1996), and was formerly a contributing editor of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Preface and Acknowledgments	viii
Abbreviations	xi
Prologue: Sindbad's Yellow Shore	1	(21)
Victorian Cities: London and Dublin	22	(25)
The English 1890s	47	(24)
Poems 1895	71	(13)
Conflicts and Crises	84	(21)
Patronage and Powers	105	(21)
An Irish Ireland	126	(21)
The Strong Enchanter	147	(21)
The Mid-life Mask	168	(19)
Darkened Rooms	187	(21)
The Lonely Height	208	(19)
All Changed	227	(19)
Occult Marriage	246	(21)
The Weasel's Tooth	267	(19)
Senator and Seer	286	(18)
Visionary Modernist	304	(20)
Home and Abroad	324	(21)
An Old Man's Frenzy	345	(19)
Stroke of Midnight	364	(13)
Epilogue: Afterlife	377	(6)
Works Cited	383	(9)
Select Bibliography and Guide to Further Reading	392	(7)
Index	399