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Autobiographies Hardcover – Import, January 1, 1955
- Print length600 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMacmillan
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1955
- ISBN-100333070283
- ISBN-13978-0333070284
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Product details
- Publisher : Macmillan; New Ed edition (January 1, 1955)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 600 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0333070283
- ISBN-13 : 978-0333070284
- Item Weight : 1.78 pounds
- Best Sellers Rank: #7,050,545 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #27,946 in Author Biographies
- #147,165 in Poetry (Books)
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About the author
William Butler Yeats (/ˈjeɪts/; 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929).
William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland and educated there and in London; he spent his childhood holidays in County Sligo. He studied poetry in his youth and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. Those topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display Yeats's debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900, Yeats's poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life.
Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Alice Boughton (Whyte's) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Yeats's comments on his own life and times, written in his own highly formal, idiosyncratic and slightly stilted style, are a delight to me, as are the illuminating comments he makes about his childhood, the figures that featured prominently in Irish politics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and his penetrating remarks about his other friends ( at the Rhymers Club at The Cheshire Cheese pub in London ), about the ladies whom he admired and loved and especially about Maud Gonne, the love of his life. He also writes in some depth and detail about his exploration of the world of the occult and about his own metaphorical 'system' for understanding the universe.
This is a very important book. It makes much clear that might otherwise be obscure - though occasionally the reverse is true!
It makes more accessible some of his most difficult poems and enhanced understanding of the more straightforward ones.
This book is a 'must' for any serious reader of Yeats.