Yeats

Yeats

Author: Richard Ellmann

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780393008593

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A critical biography of the great Irish poet traces his intellectual growth and relates his mystical concerns and involvement in public affairs to his poetry.


Yeats, The Man And The Masks

Yeats, The Man And The Masks

Author: Richard Ellmann

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2016-01-27

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 1786258323

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“The book helps fill in the picture of a complex and fascinating man...indispensable for the serious study of the subject.”—Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker The most influential poet of his age, Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him. In this classic critical examination of the poet, Richard Ellmann strips away the masks of his subject: occultist, senator of the Irish Free State, libidinous old man, and Nobel Prize winner.


Our Secret Discipline

Our Secret Discipline

Author: Helen Vendler

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2007-11-29

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780674026957

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The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of ones quarrels with others while poetry is the expression of ones quarrel with oneself. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poets mind.


W.B. Yeats: The arch-poet, 1915-1939

W.B. Yeats: The arch-poet, 1915-1939

Author: Robert Fitzroy Foster

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 798

ISBN-13: 9780198184652

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Recounts the life of the Irish poet and nationalist, describes his relationships with his contemporaries, and traces his interest in the occult.