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9780192880857

W. B. Yeats A Life, Volume I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914

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    9780192880857

  • ISBN10:

    0192880853

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-12-17
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

In the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over 50 years, leading historian R. F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet to restore a real sense of his extraordinary life as he experienced it. 62 halftones, 19 linecuts.

Author Biography


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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Source illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Family trees
Introduction
Prologue: Yeatses and Pollexfens
The Artist's Children: Sligo 1865-1881
Explorations: Dublin 1881-1887
Two Years: Bedford Park 1887-1889
Secret Societies 1889-1891
The Battles of the Books 1891-1893
Lands of Heart's Desire 1894-1896
Waiting for the Millennium 1896-1898
Shadowy Waters 1898-1900
Occult Politics 1900-1901
National Dramas 1901-1902
The Taste of Salt 1902-1903
From America to Abbey Street 1903-1904
Delighting in Enemies 1905-1906
Synge and the Ireland of His Time 1907-1909
Severances 1909-1910
True and False Irelands 1910-1911
Ghosts 1911-1913
Memory Harbour 1913-1914
Appendix: 'The Poet Yeats Talks Drama with Ashton Stevens', from the San Francisco Examiner, 30 January 1904
Abbreviations
Notes
Index.
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