Yeats - Hardcover

Tuohy, Frank

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ISBN 10: 0026204509 ISBN 13: 9780026204507

Publisher: Macmillan, 1976

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Large 8vo. 232 pp, author's note, list of color plates, 1. Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The Yeats Family; 2. Schooldays: Theosophy and Nationalism; 3. London Years: Madame Blavatsky and Maud Gonne; 4. Poets' Clubs and Secret Societies; 5. Irish Theatre and Irish Politics; 6. theatre Business, Management of Men; 7. Coole Park and London Society; 8. From the Easter Rebellion to the Irish Free State; 9. Blue Shirts and Historical Cycles; 10. An Old Man's Frenzy; concise bibliography, acknowledgments, index. First American Edition, 1976. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "The author gives us a revealing portrait of Yeats, his family, his friends, his many-sided activities as a poet, playwright, politician, and even statesman. We learn of his development as a writer from his early days in Dublin and London, and the influence upon him of the Pre-Raphaelite movement; of William Morris, Ruskin, Pater; of Wilde, Beardsley, and Dowden; the Irish dramatists Shaw, Synge, and O'Casey; the groups that gathered around Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, and Pound; Oxford in the 1920's, and the Auden generation thereafter."

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"Readers interested in the Ireland that produced almost simutaneously Syne and Shaw, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Sean O'Casey, as well as Yeats himself, will find a great deal here to entertain and enlighten them." (The Economist)

"Richly illustrated and beautifully produced...an excellent, authoritative study, written with descrimination and style...capturing the passion, gaiety and power of its subject." (Times Literary Supplement)

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