Yeats
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
Few figures in the English-speaking world cast as long a shadow as William Butler Yeats — poet, mystic, Irish nationalist, and Nobel laureate — whose life was as tumultuous and visionary as the verse he left behind. Frank Tuohy's Yeats is a richly illustrated biographical study that chronicles the arc of one of the twentieth century's greatest literary lives, from Yeats's Anglo-Irish Protestant upbringing in Sligo and Dublin, through his unrequited obsession with the revolutionary Maud Gonne, to his central role in forging a distinctly Irish cultural identity through the Abbey Theatre and the Celtic Revival. Tuohy, himself an accomplished novelist and short story writer, brings a fellow craftsman's precision and empathy to his subject, illuminating the restless intellectual ambitions that drove Yeats to absorb Theosophy, the occult, and Noh theatre into a singular, ever-evolving poetic vision. The result is a portrait that refuses to separate the man from the myth, presenting instead an artist perpetually in dialogue with history, politics, and the supernatural. For anyone drawn to the great questions of art, national identity, and spiritual longing, Yeats poses a quietly devastating challenge: can beauty alone redeem a world consumed by conflict?
Author: Frank Tuohy
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
Few figures in the English-speaking world cast as long a shadow as William Butler Yeats — poet, mystic, Irish nationalist, and Nobel laureate — whose life was as tumultuous and visionary as the verse he left behind. Frank Tuohy's Yeats is a richly illustrated biographical study that chronicles the arc of one of the twentieth century's greatest literary lives, from Yeats's Anglo-Irish Protestant upbringing in Sligo and Dublin, through his unrequited obsession with the revolutionary Maud Gonne, to his central role in forging a distinctly Irish cultural identity through the Abbey Theatre and the Celtic Revival. Tuohy, himself an accomplished novelist and short story writer, brings a fellow craftsman's precision and empathy to his subject, illuminating the restless intellectual ambitions that drove Yeats to absorb Theosophy, the occult, and Noh theatre into a singular, ever-evolving poetic vision. The result is a portrait that refuses to separate the man from the myth, presenting instead an artist perpetually in dialogue with history, politics, and the supernatural. For anyone drawn to the great questions of art, national identity, and spiritual longing, Yeats poses a quietly devastating challenge: can beauty alone redeem a world consumed by conflict?