W. B. Yeats: Man And Poet
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
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Few figures in literary history occupy as singular a position as William Butler Yeats — a man whose life was as turbulent, mystical, and passionately Irish as the verse he crafted — and Norman Jeffares' W. B. Yeats: Man and Poet stands as the definitive account of both the man and his monumental legacy. Jeffares chronicles Yeats's extraordinary journey from his early immersion in Irish mythology and the occult, through his unrequited obsession with the revolutionary Maud Gonne, to his late-career renaissance as one of the twentieth century's most formidable modernist voices. Set against the backdrop of a nation forging its own identity, the biography presents the full arc of a life lived at the intersection of art, politics, and spiritual yearning, illuminating how each strand fed directly into the poet's evolving craft. Jeffares writes with the authority of a scholar who spent a lifetime in intimate conversation with Yeats's work, and his prose balances rigorous academic precision with a narrative warmth that makes this biography accessible to devoted readers and newcomers alike. The work argues persuasively that Yeats cannot be understood as poet without understanding the man — his contradictions, his ambitions, his loves, and his almost theatrical sense of self-mythology. Published by Routledge, W. B. Yeats: Man and Poet remains an indispensable cornerstone of Irish literary scholarship, one that leaves the reader with an insatiable hunger to return to the poems themselves with newly opened eyes.
Author: Norman Jeffares
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few figures in literary history occupy as singular a position as William Butler Yeats — a man whose life was as turbulent, mystical, and passionately Irish as the verse he crafted — and Norman Jeffares' W. B. Yeats: Man and Poet stands as the definitive account of both the man and his monumental legacy. Jeffares chronicles Yeats's extraordinary journey from his early immersion in Irish mythology and the occult, through his unrequited obsession with the revolutionary Maud Gonne, to his late-career renaissance as one of the twentieth century's most formidable modernist voices. Set against the backdrop of a nation forging its own identity, the biography presents the full arc of a life lived at the intersection of art, politics, and spiritual yearning, illuminating how each strand fed directly into the poet's evolving craft. Jeffares writes with the authority of a scholar who spent a lifetime in intimate conversation with Yeats's work, and his prose balances rigorous academic precision with a narrative warmth that makes this biography accessible to devoted readers and newcomers alike. The work argues persuasively that Yeats cannot be understood as poet without understanding the man — his contradictions, his ambitions, his loves, and his almost theatrical sense of self-mythology. Published by Routledge, W. B. Yeats: Man and Poet remains an indispensable cornerstone of Irish literary scholarship, one that leaves the reader with an insatiable hunger to return to the poems themselves with newly opened eyes.