W.B. Yeats
Subtitle: a life
By: R.F. Foster.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780192117359; 9780198184652
Subjects: Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939; Poets, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography; Poets, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography; Ireland -- Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The apprentice mage, 1865-1914.; title: Family trees; title: Introduction; title: Prologue : Yeatses and Pollexfens; title: The artist's children: Sligo 1865-1881; title: Explorations : Dublin 1881-1887; title: Two years : Bedford Park 1887-1889; title: Secret societies 1889-1891; title: The battles of the books 1891-1893; title: Lands of heart's desire 1894-1896; title: Waiting for the millennium 1896-1898; title: Shadowy waters 1898-1900; title: Occult politics 1900-1901; title: National dramas 1901-1902; title: The taste of salt 1902-1903; title: From America to Abbey Street 1903-1904; title: Delighting in enemies 1905-1906; title: Synge and the Ireland of his time 1907-1909; title: Severances 1909-1910; title: True and false Irelands 1910-1911; title: Ghosts 1911-1913; title: Memory Harbour 1913-1914; title: Appendix : 'The poet Yeats talks drama with Ashton Stevens', from the San Francisco Examiner, 30 January 1904; title: v. 2. The arch-poet, 1915-1939.; title: Introduction : Accidence and coherence; title: Prologue : Crossways; title: Accomplishment and Noh 1915-1916; title: Shades and angels 1916-1917; title: The sense of happiness 1917-1919; title: A feeling for revelation 1919-1920; title: 'Weight and measure in a time of dearth' 1920-1921; title: Living in the explosion 1922-1924; title: Bad writers and bishops 1924-1925; title: Vanity and pride 1925-1927; title: Striking a match 1927-1930; title: One last burial 1930-1932; title: Struggles toward reality 1932-1933; title: A new fanaticism 1933-1934; title: Passionate metaphysics 1934-1935; title: Fire and eating 1936-1937; title: Folly and elegance 1937-1938; title: Dying like an empire 1938-1939; title: Epilogue : Genius and history