"Volume I: The Apprentice Mage" describes W. B. Yeats's progress from childhood through a bohemian life of love-affairs, artistic development, and political involvements, to his fiftieth year. Drawing on a great archive of personal and contemporary material, Foster charts the growth of a poet's mind and of an astonishing personality, both of which were instrumental in the formation of a new and radicalized Irish nationalist identity. "Volume II: The Arch-Poet", the second and final volume in R. F. Foster's acclaimed biography, covers the second half of W. B. Yeats's life, taking in his controversial political involvements, continued supernatural experiments, his extraordinary marriage, a series of love affairs, and the writing of his greatest poetry. Life and work are woven closely together to create a rich, new, uniquely authoritative, and immensely involving treatment of one of the greatest lives of modern times.
- ISBN10 019280717X
- ISBN13 9780192807175
- Publish Date 1 February 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 13 October 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 1496
- Language English