Memoirs: Autobiography - First Draft; Journal
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket visible — boards appear clean and intact. Page Condition: Slight yellowing/tanning consistent with age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears tight and intact. No stickers or labels visible.
W. B. Yeats's Memoirs presents an intimate and unguarded portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, transcribed and edited by scholar Denis Donoghue from previously unpublished manuscripts. The volume comprises two distinct sections: an autobiographical first draft written around 1915–1917, and a private journal kept between 1908 and 1930, offering readers a candid window into Yeats's inner world. The autobiography chronicles his passionate, often turbulent relationships — most notably his long and unrequited love for the Irish nationalist Maud Gonne — alongside his formative literary and theatrical endeavours in Dublin. The journal, raw and unpolished by design, records his daily thoughts, friendships, spiritual preoccupations, and aesthetic philosophies with remarkable frankness. Together, these two documents illuminate the man behind the myth, revealing a Yeats far more vulnerable and searching than the monumental public figure his verse might suggest.
Author: W. B. Yeats
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, Macmillan
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket visible — boards appear clean and intact. Page Condition: Slight yellowing/tanning consistent with age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears tight and intact. No stickers or labels visible.
W. B. Yeats's Memoirs presents an intimate and unguarded portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, transcribed and edited by scholar Denis Donoghue from previously unpublished manuscripts. The volume comprises two distinct sections: an autobiographical first draft written around 1915–1917, and a private journal kept between 1908 and 1930, offering readers a candid window into Yeats's inner world. The autobiography chronicles his passionate, often turbulent relationships — most notably his long and unrequited love for the Irish nationalist Maud Gonne — alongside his formative literary and theatrical endeavours in Dublin. The journal, raw and unpolished by design, records his daily thoughts, friendships, spiritual preoccupations, and aesthetic philosophies with remarkable frankness. Together, these two documents illuminate the man behind the myth, revealing a Yeats far more vulnerable and searching than the monumental public figure his verse might suggest.