Yeats
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few figures in the literary canon cast as long a shadow as William Butler Yeats — poet, mystic, playwright, and Irish nationalist — and Frank Tuohy's biography, Yeats, presents a richly textured portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering creative intellects. Tuohy chronicles the arc of Yeats's extraordinary life, from his bohemian Dublin and London beginnings through his passionate involvement in the Irish Literary Revival, his unrequited obsession with the revolutionary Maud Gonne, and his eventual ascent to the Nobel Prize in 1923. Tuohy's prose is precise and evocative, illuminating not only the biographical facts but also the deeper philosophical and spiritual currents — Rosicrucianism, occultism, and Irish mythology — that fed the poet's singular imagination. The author argues that Yeats's genius lay in his relentless capacity for self-reinvention, transforming personal anguish and political turmoil into verse of haunting, timeless beauty. Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, this volume stands as an essential companion for anyone drawn to the life of the man who asked, How can we know the dancer from the dance? — and who spent a lifetime making that question impossible to answer.
Author: Frank Tuohy
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few figures in the literary canon cast as long a shadow as William Butler Yeats — poet, mystic, playwright, and Irish nationalist — and Frank Tuohy's biography, Yeats, presents a richly textured portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering creative intellects. Tuohy chronicles the arc of Yeats's extraordinary life, from his bohemian Dublin and London beginnings through his passionate involvement in the Irish Literary Revival, his unrequited obsession with the revolutionary Maud Gonne, and his eventual ascent to the Nobel Prize in 1923. Tuohy's prose is precise and evocative, illuminating not only the biographical facts but also the deeper philosophical and spiritual currents — Rosicrucianism, occultism, and Irish mythology — that fed the poet's singular imagination. The author argues that Yeats's genius lay in his relentless capacity for self-reinvention, transforming personal anguish and political turmoil into verse of haunting, timeless beauty. Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, this volume stands as an essential companion for anyone drawn to the life of the man who asked, How can we know the dancer from the dance? — and who spent a lifetime making that question impossible to answer.