{"product_id":"the-life-of-w-b-yeats-a-critical-biography-wiley-blackwell-critical-biographies-9780631228516","title":"The Life of W B Yeats A Critical Biography Wiley","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW.B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as public figure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For general readers and undergraduates, Brown's is the best choice. Brown's excellent biography is highly recommended for all readership levels.\"\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a wonderful critical history, meticulously providing a full context in time and place for all of Yeats's writings.\"\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrown is especially good at showing how Yeats constructed his volumes of poetry as a 'work in progress', and at rooting his acheivements in the venemous politics of Dublin culture wars.\"\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The work is fascinating and a pleasure to read, Brown an illuminating and companiable guide.\"\u003ci\u003eJohn McGahern, The Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"One of the many splendid qualities of Terence Brown's recent biography is its critical appreciation of the poet's extraordinary cultural accomplishments within the broader context of a brilliantly rendered political and social history of modern Ireland.\u003cbr\u003e \"Brown's book is nonetheless the finest single-volume biography of the Irish poet since the publication of Richard Ellmann's seminal \u003ci\u003eYeats: The Man and the Masks\u003c\/i\u003e in 1948.\" \u003ci\u003eReason\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Exceptional!!!!\" \u003ci\u003eToday's Books\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations. \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue: Sindbad's Yellow Shore.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Victorian Cities: London and Dublin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The English 1890s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Poems 1895.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Conflicts and Crises.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Patronage and Powers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. An Irish Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Strong Enchanter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Mid-Life Mask.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Darkened Rooms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Lonely Height.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. All Changed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Occult Marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The Weasel's Tooth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Senator and Seer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Visionary Modernist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Home and Abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. An Old Man's Frenzy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Stroke of Midnight.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks Cited.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography and Guide to Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403447902551,"sku":"9780631228516","price":41.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631228516.jpg?v=1730483502","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-life-of-w-b-yeats-a-critical-biography-wiley-blackwell-critical-biographies-9780631228516","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}