The autobiography of William Butler Yeats: Consisting of reveries over childhood and youth, the trembling of the veil, and dramatis personae
W. B Yeats (Author)
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Yeats, William Butler
"I have kept back nothing necessary to understanding." The writings in this volume comprise a major poetic testament by the greatest poet to write English in our time. Ranging over fifty-eight years, from Yeats' earliest memories to his winning of the Nobel Prize, The Autobiography includes REVERIES OVER CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH, THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL, DRAMATIS PERSONAE, ESTRANGEMENT, THE DEATH OF SYNGE, and THE BOUNTY OF SWEDEN. Together these writings constitute a fascinating record of Yeats' relationships with such contemporary figures as John Synge, Oscar Wilde, George Moore, William Morris, Madame Blavatsky, Maud Gonne, and the Pre-Raphaelites, as well as his intense preoccupation with the Irish theater, politics, occultism, the cabala, and above all, poetry. In these peopld, issues and ideas lies the origin of the symbols and tensions that inform the work. For Yeats, the concerns of life were equally the concerns of art. This ishis own accounting of the elements, strands, and links that led to the transformation of the one into the other.
- Rank: #3121345 in Books
- Published on: 1964
- Binding: Paperback
- 404 pages
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