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W.B. Yeats: A Life, vol. 1, The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914.
The Nation
; R.F. Foster transforms the popular image of the young poet from a dreamy Wandering Aengus sort of gent to that of an ambitious self-promoter who hid his shyness behind a fusillade of bombast. (Foster leaves no romantic images intact: He even ascribes Yeats's much-noted misty gaze to a conical
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What was lost: can a biography of W. B. Yeats rely on historical fact alone?(Book Review)
Harper's Magazine
; ... Washington); 13, 14 Council on American-Islamic Relations (Washington); 15 National Security Archive (Washington); 16, 17 History News Network (Seattle)/Fred Greenstein, Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.)/Timothy McKeown, University of North Carolina (Chapel ...
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BOOKS: THE SEXED-UP SENATOR Yeats was firing on all cylinders almost to the last. Mark Bostridge marvels at the culmination of a majestic biography; W B Yeats: A Life II: The Arch-Poet By R F Foster OXFORD pounds 30 pounds 26 (+ pounds 2.25 P&P PER ORDER) 0870 800 1122
The Independent on Sunday
; This second and final volume of R F Foster's biography of W B Yeats opens in 1915, in Yeats's 50th year, and at an important crossroads in the poet's life. Yeats had recently completed a memoir of his childhood in which he had concluded that all life was a preparation for something that never
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A life like a novel.(W. B. Yeats: a Life Volume II: The Arch-poet 1915-1939)(Book Review)
Irish Literary Supplement
; R.F. FOSTER W. B. Yeats: a Life Volume II: The Arch-poet 1915-1939 Oxford University Press, 2003, $45.00 In THE 1880S, LILY YEATS RETRIEVED from the floor of the Yeats's Blenheim Road house crumpled drafts of poems her brother had written. Half a century later, these scraps of paper had been
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Yeats in the real world. (poet and playwright William Butler Yeats)
The Southern Review
; Reading the third amazing volume of Yeats's Collected Letters - 692 pages' worth, written between 1901 and 1904 - one has a suddenly vivified sense of what Yeats was referring to a few years later in The Fascination of What's Difficult : The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of
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Everything and Nothing in Yeats
The Hudson Review
; Everything and Nothing in Yeats 1 YEATS WAS BURIED FOR THE SECOND-TO-LAST TIME on January 30, 1939, in the hilltop churchyard at Roquebrune in the South of France. He had died two days before, in the Hotel Ideal Sejour, a seaside villa below Roquebrune's rocky outcrop where he was wintering with a
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The anatomy of Yeats's inventions [Corrected 03/04/08]
The Boston Globe
; BOOK REVIEW Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form By Helen Vendler Belknap, 428 pp., illustrated, $35 In her preface to "Our Secret Discipline," Helen Vendler tells us that 50 years ago, as a graduate student at Harvard, she planned to write her dissertation on Yeats's poetry; then on
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What rough beast? Yeats, Nietzsche and historical rhetoric in "The Second Coming."
Papers on Language & Literature
; In the absence of a thorough examination of the impact on The Second Coming of Yeats's historical thought, it is arguable that the meaning the poet intended has not only been consistently overlooked, but that in general the poem has been taken to mean the opposite of what he intended. This essay
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Mystic poet.(W.B. Yeats: A Life. Volume 2: The Arch-Poet)(Book Review)
The Nation
; W.B. YEATS: A Life. Volume 2: The Arch-Poet. By R.F. Foster. Oxford. 798 pp. $45. Most biographies of literary figures are a wonderful substitute for actually having to read the work. Instead of wrestling with Leaves of Grass, you can speculate about how many bastard children Whitman fathered.
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That politics thing again.(Blood Kindred: W. B Yeats, The Life, The Death, The Politics)(Book review)
Irish Literary Supplement
; W. J. McCORMACK Blood Kindred: W. B Yeats, The Life, The Death, The Politics. Pimlico, London, 2005, 12-99 [pounds sterling] IN AN UNUSUAL ARTICLE in a recent issue of The Irish Book Review William McCormack reflected on the lack of reaction to his book Blood Kindred. The book deals with Yeats's
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