AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Beyond faeryland.("W. B. Yeats: A Life Volume II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939")(Book Review)
R. F. Foster W. B. Yeats: A Life Volume II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939. Oxford University Press, 798 pages, $45
The four great twentieth-century anglophone poets are, in my reckoning, Eliot, Graves, Pound, and Yeats, followed by Auden, Cummings, Frost, MacNeice, and Ransom. (Stevens and Williams do not speak to me.) Interestingly, the top four had in common the need for a system of belief on which to hang their work and, to a certain extent, their life. For Eliot, this was Anglo-Catholicism; for Graves, the cult of woman as the White Goddess and his various wives and mistresses. For Pound, it became fascism, with its skewed political, racial, and economic notions. ...
- Politicians and Their Quoting of William Butler Yeats
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered March 15, 1996 700+ words
...of politicians quoting William Butler Yeats. Many of them know now what they...candidates have turned to William Butler Yeats to satisfy the growing need for...their sights lifted by William Butler Yeats? MELISSA BLOCK: But wait. A...
- William Butler Yeats
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1996 700+ words
...Photos 01-01-1996 William Butler Yeats The venerated Irish writer W.B. (William Butler) Yeats, pictured in his middle years...Irish writer W.B. (William Butler) Yeats, pictured in his middle years...
- Poetry of William Butler Yeats: Introduction
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Yeats, William Butler January 1, 1963 700+ words
...Background And Childhood: William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin in 1865, one...fairly well known artist). John Butler Yeats, his father, was a precariously...His mother, Susan Pollexfen Yeats, came of an old Anglo-Irish...
- ABOVE THE FAIR.(Irish artist John Butler Yeats)
- Magazine article from: World of Hibernia PYLE, HILARY June 22, 1999 700+ words
...from Sligo, his father, John Butler Yeats (1839-1922), started as a...and iconic in his maturity. John Butler Yeats, who had a peripatetic life as...been given to the women of the Yeats family. Jack's two sisters...
- Jacqueline Genet, La Poesie de William Butler Yeats.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies Maher, Eamon September 22, 2008 700+ words
...Jacqueline Genet, La Poesie de William Butler Yeats. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires...under review is her fourth book on Yeats and it is easy to see the familiarity...written on the life and works of Yeats that it is a daunting task to come...
- Poetry of William Butler Yeats: The Winding Stair
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Yeats, William Butler January 1, 1963 700+ words
...their fury. In "Death," however, Yeats declares his certainty that time...utterance of The Winding Stair - Yeats confronts the opposed alternatives...transient bodily incarnation as William Butler Yeats - and his Soul, the eternal, nameless...
- Yeats's Easter 1916.(William Butler Yeats)(Brief Article)
- The Explicator Newman, Neville F. March 22, 2002 700+ words
The stone image that William Butler Yeats sees in "Easter 1916" as "troubl...An alternative interpretation of Yeats' poem rests on the recognition that...writing of the patriots to whom Yeats refers: "Their hearts have become...
- Ireland as an imaginary place in W. B. Yeats's The Herne's Egg.(William Butler...
- Magazine article from: West Virginia University Philological Papers Lapisardi, Frederick S. September 22, 2006 700+ words
...unsuccessful tone, uncongenial to Yeats's temperament" (! 61). And...reflects the eclectic nature of William Butler Yeats's imagination. Wilson's approach...in exploring the imaginary world Yeats depicts on the pages of this play...
