Ireland's greatest poet, William Butler Yeats, was also perhaps the outstanding poet to have written in English since Wordsworth.
Many of his early poems – wistful, mysterious and suffused with Pre-Raphaelite imagery – are of haunting beauty, but in the early 1900s Yeats turned his thoughts increasingly to reality. Directing his energies to the twin causes of the Irish Literary renaissance and of Irish national independence, he evolved a new style – austere but capable of sustained magnificence.
Alongside over 100 documentary illustrations, Micheál Mac Liammóir and Eavan Boland trace Yeats' long and eventful career, covering such episodes as his directorship of the Abbey Theatre and service in the Irish Senate, as well as his poetic activities.
- ISBN13 9780500260227
- Publish Date 7 July 1986
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 6 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 144
- Language English