W.B. Yeats : a literary life / Alasdair D.F. Macrae.
W.B. Yeats : a literary life / Alasdair D.F. Macrae.
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Publisher
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995.
Date
1995.
Call Numbers
N821.8/Y41/52
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxv, 204 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Chronology: Yeats's Life and Contemporary Events -- 1. Family and Place -- 2. Yeats and the 1890s: Celtic Twilight and Golden Dawn -- 3. Yeats and Politics -- 4. Yeats and the Theatre: 'Baptism of the Gutter' -- 5. Friends and Loves -- 6. Masks and Development -- 7. A Vision of Byzantium -- 8. Yeats...
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Publisher
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1995.
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Summary
This literary life seeks to question another image of Yeats as a comfortable, affluent, quasi-aristocratic figure and suggests that the heroic elevation of friends, the laudation of the graciousness of the Big House and the spiritual stasis of Byzantium, stem, in part, from a disrupted childhood and a fear of insecurity. Yeats, the most ambitious o...
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W.B. Yeats : a literary life / Alasdair D.F. Macrae.
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Literary lives.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-194) and indexes.
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N821.8/Y41/52
Record Identifier
74VMBJAwL32Z
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ISBN
0312123108
9780312123109
DDC
821.8 B
MMS ID
991002342089702626
