In the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over 50 years, leading historian R. F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet to restore a real sense of his extraordinary life as he experienced it. 62 halftones, 19 linecuts.
In the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over 50 years, leading historian R. F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet to restore a real sense of his extraordinary life as he experienced it. 62 halftones, 19 linecuts.
R. F. Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at Oxford University. Renowned as an Irish historian and biographer, his previous books include Modern Ireland 1600-1972 and The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland, as well as biographies of Charles Stewart Parnell and Lord Randolph Churchill. Roy Foster was born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1949 and educated in Ireland and in the United States. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where he was a Foundation Scholar in History, he subsequently became Professor of Modern British History at Birkbeck College, University of London, as well as holding visiting fellowships at St Anthony's College, Oxford, the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, and Princeton University. In 1991 he became the first Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and was elected a Fellow of Hertford College. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1989.
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* List of illustrations Source illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword Family trees Introduction Prologue: Yeatses and Pollexfens 1 The Artist's Children: Sligo 1865-1881 2 Explorations: Dublin 1881-1887 * 3 Two Years: Bedford Park 1887-1889 4 Secret Societies 1889-1891 5 The Battles of the Books 1891-1893 6 Lands of Heart's Desire 1894-1896 7 Waiting for the Millennium 1896-1898 8 Shadowy Waters 1898-1900 9 Occult Politics 1900-1901 10 National Dramas 1901-1902 11 The Taste of Salt 1902-1903 12 From America to Abbey Street 1903-1904 13 Delighting in Enemies 1905-1906 14 Synge and the Ireland of His Time 1907-1909 15 Severances 1909-1910 16 True and False Irelands 1910-1911 17 Ghosts 1911-1913 18 Memory Harbour 1913-1914 * Appendix: 'The Poet Yeats Talks Drama with Ashton Stevens', from the San Francisco Examiner, 30 January 1904 Abbreviations Notes Index.
* List of illustrations Source illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword Family trees Introduction Prologue: Yeatses and Pollexfens 1 The Artist's Children: Sligo 1865-1881 2 Explorations: Dublin 1881-1887 * 3 Two Years: Bedford Park 1887-1889 4 Secret Societies 1889-1891 5 The Battles of the Books 1891-1893 6 Lands of Heart's Desire 1894-1896 7 Waiting for the Millennium 1896-1898 8 Shadowy Waters 1898-1900 9 Occult Politics 1900-1901 10 National Dramas 1901-1902 11 The Taste of Salt 1902-1903 12 From America to Abbey Street 1903-1904 13 Delighting in Enemies 1905-1906 14 Synge and the Ireland of His Time 1907-1909 15 Severances 1909-1910 16 True and False Irelands 1910-1911 17 Ghosts 1911-1913 18 Memory Harbour 1913-1914 * Appendix: 'The Poet Yeats Talks Drama with Ashton Stevens', from the San Francisco Examiner, 30 January 1904 Abbreviations Notes Index.
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