W. B. Yeats (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: A. Norman Jeffares
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1865-1939
- Setting: Ireland and England
- Principal Characters: William Butler Yeats, John Butler Yeats, Maud Gonne, Lady Augusta Gregory
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Literature, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Nationalism, Spiritualism, Nobel Prizes, Occultism or the occult, Ireland or Irish people, Skepticism, Theosophy
- Locales: England, Ireland
Scholars know more about William Butler Yeats than any other twentieth century poet. He consciously created his own self in his memorable autobiographical works. Nevertheless, A. Norman Jeffares’ new biography of William Butler Yeats is very welcome; it is the first full-length biography of the poet since Joseph Hone’s William Butler Yeats in 1943. Jeffares’ 1952 book on Yeats, William Butler Yeats: Man and Poet, is more an analysis of the poems than a pure biography. The present biography is able, moreover, to include much information about Yeats that has come to light in...
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