W. B. Yeats (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: R. F. Foster
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Biography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Social action, Mythology or myths, Politics, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Religion, Poetry or poets, Nationalism, London, Spiritualism, Metaphysics, Mysticism, Heroes or heroism, Drama or dramatists, Ireland or Irish people, Protestantism or Protestant churches, Plays or playwrights
- Locales: France, England, Italy, Ireland
William Butler Yeats, a major poet of the twentieth century in the English language, and modern Ireland’s most significant figure, has been the subject of many biographies. Robert F. Foster’s study, W. B. YEATS: A LIFE: THE APPRENTICE MAGE, 1865-1939, stands apart from its predecessors because Foster is an historian, not a literary scholar, and because earlier biographers used Yeats’ own thematic arrangement, in his AUTOBIOGRAPHIES (1926), as their pattern, eschewing chronology, and tracing romanticism, occultism, and nationalism through his life. Foster’s is a chronological...
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