W B Yeats The Arch Poet 1915 1939

Author : R. F. Foster
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0191584258

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W. B. Yeats: A Life II by R. F. Foster Pdf

The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a crossroads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The Arch-Poet takes in his rediscovery of advanced nationalism and his struggle for an independent Irish culture, his continued pursuit of supernatural truths through occult experimentation, his extraordinary marriage, and a series of tumultuous love affairs. Throughout he was writing his greatest poems: 'The Fisherman' and 'The Wild Swans at Coole' in their stark simplicity; the magnificently complex sequences on the Troubles and Civil War; the Byzantium poems; and the radically compressed last work - some of it literally written on his deathbed. The drama of his life is mapped against the history of the Irish revolution and the new Irish state founded in 1922. Yeats's many political roles and his controversial involvement in a right-wing movement during the early 1930s are covered more closely than ever before, and his complex and passionate relationship with the developing history of his country remains a central theme. Throughout this book, the genesis, alteration, and presentation of his work (memoirs and polemic as well as poetry) is explored through his private and public life. The enormous and varied circle of Yeats's friends, lovers, family, collaborators, and antagonists inhabit and enrich a personal world of astounding energy, artistic commitment, and verve. Yeats constantly re-created himself and his work, believing that art was 'not the chief end of life but an accident in one's search for reality': a search which brought him again and again back to his governing preoccupations: sex and death. He also held that 'all knowledge is biography', a belief reflected in this study of one of the greatest lives of modern times.

Author : Robert Fitzroy Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Ireland
ISBN : LCCN:96031671

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W.B. Yeats: The arch-poet, 1915-1939 by Robert Fitzroy Foster Pdf

Author : Robert Fitzroy Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198184654

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W.B. Yeats: The arch-poet, 1915-1939 by Robert Fitzroy Foster Pdf

Recounts the life of the Irish poet and nationalist, describes his relationships with his contemporaries, and traces his interest in the occult.

Author : Robert Fitzroy Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:751178946

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W.B. Yeats by Robert Fitzroy Foster Pdf

Author : Robert Fitzroy Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Ireland
ISBN : LCCN:96031671

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W.B. Yeats: The arch-poet, 1915-1939 by Robert Fitzroy Foster Pdf

Author : Robert Fitzroy Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0192880853

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W.B. Yeats by Robert Fitzroy Foster Pdf

William Butler Yeats has cast his long shadow over the history of both modern poetry and modern Ireland for so long that his preeminence is taken for granted. Now, in the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over fifty years, leading Irish historian R.F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet to restore a real sense of Yeats's extraordinary life as Yeats himself experienced it--what he saw, what he did, the passions and the petty squabbles that consumed him, and his alchemical ability to transmute the events of his crowded and contradictory life into enduring art. In the first volume of this long-awaited biography, Foster covers the poet's first fifty years, bringing new light to bear on Yeats's heroic and often ruthless efforts to invent himself as a poet and public figure. Drawn from a fascinating archive of personal and contemporary documents with the cooperation of surviving members of the Yeats family, it dramatically alters long-held assumptions about the poet's background, his relationship with Maud Gonne and other women, and his roles in the great cultural and political upheavals that transformed Ireland in his lifetime. A rich and entertaining account of Yeats's boyhood days amidst the talented but troubled members of the Yeats and Pollexfen clans provides important insight into the poet's deep and lifelong connection to the Irish landscape, his early, impassioned embrace of the nationalist cause, and his later retreat to the traditions of the once grand Protestant aristocracy. In his own day Yeats attracted enemies and admirers with equal passion, and Foster vividly recreates the friendships, love affairs, and simmering rivalries that swirled about the poet's circles in London, Dublin, and Coole Park. Complementing his meticulous scholarship with a shrewd wit and a novelist's eye for detail, he chronicles the romantic disappointments, financial difficulties, experimentation with hashish and mescal, and the growing preoccupation with the occult that prefaced Yeats's attempt to unite Irish politics with high culture and his creation of an Irish national theater. Here are the poet's memorable encounters with many of the most interesting people of his time, including Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and the wildly diverse leaders of the Irish independence movement. And here at last is a full accounting of the complex bond between Yeats and the incomparable Maud Gonne, revealed as an influence eternally recreated 'like the phoenix,' affecting almost everything he did. Poet, playwright, mystic and revolutionary; lover, confidant, and friend. This brilliant account of the public and private lives of William Butler Yeats illuminates not only the wellspring of his artistic vision, but the modern Irish identity he helped to create. It is essential reading for anyone intrigued by one of the most original and influential voices of the twentieth century.

Author : Daniel Tompsett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429885037

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Unlocking the Poetry of W. B. Yeats by Daniel Tompsett Pdf

Unlocking the Poetry of W.B. Yeats undertakes a thorough re-reading of Yeats' oeuvre as an extended meditation on the image and theme of the heart as it is evident within the poetry. It places the heart at the centre of a complex web of Yeatsian preoccupations and associations—from the biographical, to the poetic and philosophical, to the mythological and mystical. In particular, the book seeks to unlock Yeats’ mystifying aesthetic vision via his understanding of the ancient Egyptian "Weighing of the Heart" ceremony. The work provides a chronological narrative arc that looks to use the theme of the heart as it recurs in the poetry in order to circumvent and overcome more established frameworks. Its purpose is to offer refreshing ways of conceptualizing and building alternatives to more deeply entrenched, but not entirely satisfactory arguments that have been offered since Yeats' death in 1939, while demonstrating the centrality of the occult to Yeats' art.

Author : Christopher Merrill
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781535852777

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Gale Researcher Guide for: William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet by Christopher Merrill Pdf

Gale Researcher Guide for: William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : A. Bradley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230119543

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Imagining Ireland in the Poems and Plays of W. B. Yeats by A. Bradley Pdf

An important part of the national imaginary, Yeat's work has helped to invent the nation of Ireland, while critiquing the modern state that emerged from it's revolutionary period. This study offers a chronological account of Yeat's volumes of poetry, contextualizing and analyzing them in light of Irish cultural and political history.

Author : R. F. Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191619670

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Words Alone by R. F. Foster Pdf

W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's eloquent and authoritative book weaves together literature and history to present an alternative perspective. By returning to the rich seed-bed of nineteenth-century Irish writing, Words Alone charts some of the influences, including romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemic of the Young Ireland movement, the occult and supernatural novels of Sheridan LeFanu, William Carleton's 'peasant fictions', and fairy-lore and folktale collectors that created the unique and powerful Yeatsian voice of the decade from 1885 to 1895. As well as placing these literary movements in a vivid contemporary context of politics, polemic and social tension, Foster discusses recent critical and interpretive approaches to these phenomena. He shows that the use Yeats made of his predecessors during his apprenticeship, and the part that a self-conscious use of Irish literary tradition played in the construction of his path-breaking early work as he attempted to 'hammer his thoughts into a unity' made him an inheritor as much as an inventor.

Author : Jahan Ramazani
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226730288

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Poetry in a Global Age by Jahan Ramazani Pdf

Ideas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national frame. Indeed, the globality of poetry, he argues, stands to energize the transnational turn in the humanities. Poetry in a Global Age builds on Ramazani’s award-winning A Transnational Poetics, a book that had a catalytic effect on literary studies. Ramazani broadens his lens to discuss modern and contemporary poems not only in relation to world literature, war, and questions of orientalism but also in light of current debates over ecocriticism, translation studies, tourism, and cultural geography. He offers brilliant readings of postcolonial poets like Agha Shahid Ali, Lorna Goodison, and Daljit Nagra, as well as canonical modernists such as W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and Marianne Moore. Ramazani shows that even when poetry seems locally rooted, its long memory of forms and words, its connections across centuries, continents, and languages, make it a powerful imaginative resource for a global age. This book makes a strong case for poetry in the future development of world literature and global studies.

Author : Nicholas Grene
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199234776

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Yeats's Poetic Codes by Nicholas Grene Pdf

A new approach to Yeats's poems, concentrating on the reading experience itself. By picking out the distinctive 'codes' of Yeats's poetic practice, such as his use of dates and place names, characteristic vocabulary, and stylistic preferences, Grene's study will send readers back to the work with a new sense of understanding and enjoyment.

Author : Karen E. Brown
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0754666441

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The Yeats Circle, Verbal and Visual Relations in Ireland, 1880-1939 by Karen E. Brown Pdf

Focusing on W.B. Yeats's ideal of mutual support between the arts and on the cultural production of the Yeats circle members, Karen Brown explores the artistic relationships and outcome of Yeats's vision in five case studies. In so doing, the author makes use of primary materials and fresh archival evidence, and delves into a variety of media, including embroidery, print, illustration, theatre, costume design, poetry, and painting.

Author : Lauren Arrington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198834670

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The Oxford Handbook of W. B. Yeats by Lauren Arrington Pdf

The forty-two chapters in this book consider Yeats's early toil, his practical and esoteric concerns as his career developed, his friends and enemies, and how he was and is understood. This Handbook brings together critics and writers who have considered what Yeats wrote and how he wrote, moving between texts and their contexts in ways that will lead the reader through Yeats's multiple selves as poet, playwright, public figure, and mystic. It assembles a variety of views and adds to a sense of dialogue, the antinomian or deliberately-divided way of thinking that Yeats relished and encouraged. This volume puts that sense of a living dialogue in tune both with the history of criticism on Yeats and also with contemporary critical and ethical debates, not shirking the complexities of Yeats's more uncomfortable political positions or personal life. It provides one basis from which future Yeats scholarship can continue to participate in the fascination of all the contributors here in the satisfying difficulty of this great writer.

Author : Michael O'Neill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1117 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521883061

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The Cambridge History of English Poetry by Michael O'Neill Pdf

A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.