Perpetuum mobile: Metamorphoses des corps et des oeuvres de Vinci a Montaigne.(Review)(Brief Article)

The Modern Language Review | April 1, 1999| | Copyright

W. B. Yeats: A Life. Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914. By R. F. FOSTER. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. xxxi + 640 pp. 25 [pounds sterling].

The Yeats who emerges from this long-awaited first part of R. F. Foster's splendid biography is very much a maker on the make, and it is primarily himself that he is remaking. Foster demonstrates the links between Yeats's 'continuing reworking of his poems' and 'his own heroic self-construction' as 'an impresario of his own image' (p. xxv), deploying a mage's 'alchemical capacity' (p. xxvi) to transmute ...

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