W. B. Yeats: 1865-1939
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 2nd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Few literary lives have burned as brightly — or as turbulently — as that of William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet who towered over the twentieth century with a voice that was at once deeply personal and fiercely national. Joseph Hone's authoritative biography W. B. Yeats: 1865–1939 chronicles the full arc of Yeats's remarkable existence, from his childhood in County Sligo and his early immersion in Irish mythology and the occult, through his central role in the Irish Literary Revival and the founding of the Abbey Theatre, to his late-career reinvention as one of the most innovative and powerful voices in modern poetry. Hone, who knew Yeats personally, writes with the intimacy of a confidant and the precision of a scholar, illuminating the man behind the myth — his passionate unrequited love for Maud Gonne, his complex relationship with Irish nationalism, his esoteric spiritual beliefs, and his unwavering dedication to his craft. This second edition remains a landmark work of literary biography, indispensable for understanding how a poet shaped — and was shaped by — one of history's most tumultuous eras. What emerges is a portrait so vivid and complete that readers will find themselves wondering: which came first — the legend, or the man who invented it?
Author: Joseph Hone
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Macmillan
Genre: Biography
Edition: 2nd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Few literary lives have burned as brightly — or as turbulently — as that of William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet who towered over the twentieth century with a voice that was at once deeply personal and fiercely national. Joseph Hone's authoritative biography W. B. Yeats: 1865–1939 chronicles the full arc of Yeats's remarkable existence, from his childhood in County Sligo and his early immersion in Irish mythology and the occult, through his central role in the Irish Literary Revival and the founding of the Abbey Theatre, to his late-career reinvention as one of the most innovative and powerful voices in modern poetry. Hone, who knew Yeats personally, writes with the intimacy of a confidant and the precision of a scholar, illuminating the man behind the myth — his passionate unrequited love for Maud Gonne, his complex relationship with Irish nationalism, his esoteric spiritual beliefs, and his unwavering dedication to his craft. This second edition remains a landmark work of literary biography, indispensable for understanding how a poet shaped — and was shaped by — one of history's most tumultuous eras. What emerges is a portrait so vivid and complete that readers will find themselves wondering: which came first — the legend, or the man who invented it?