W.B.Yeats: A Life

by Stephen Coote

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In this biography of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) the author shows him through a life of tumultuous creativity through which he strove to bring new meaning to poetry, vision and politics. The biography explores how Yeats was influenced by his unrequited love for Maud Gonne and how he became one of the leading figures of the decadent 1890's. The book also traces the developing consciousness of Yeats's homeland, the new Irish state, and reveals him as an ardent nationalist, a disillusioned observer of the Irish Civil War who was to become a powerful advocate of greater freedom for Ireland. The...Read more
  • ISBN10 0340647116
  • ISBN13 9780340647110
  • Publish Date 21 May 1998
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 29 November 2006
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
  • Imprint Sceptre
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 623
  • Language English