Yeats's worlds: Ireland, England, and the Poetic Imagination / David Pierce; with contemporary photographs by Dan Harper
by Pierce, David (1947-)
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- ISBN 10
- 0300063237
- ISBN 13
- 9780300063233
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New Haven; London: Yale Univ. Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xiv, 346 pages: illustrations (some color), maps; 26 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-342) and index. Contents: 1. Yeats and Sligo -- Between Extremities -- Yeats's Family in Sligo -- John Butler Yeats -- Sligo and Landscape -- 2. Yeats's Female Daimon -- Early Interest in the Occult -- Speckled Bird -- Automatic Writing Sessions -- 3. Yeats and Cultural Nationalism -- Ballad Poetry of Ireland -- Case of William Allingham Re-Examined -- Standish James O'Grady, the Fenian Unionist -- John O'Leary and the Fenian Tradition -- 4. Yeats and 1890s London -- William Morris -- London Clubland -- Journals and Journalism -- Celt in London -- 5. Yeats and the Abbey Theatre -- In the Making -- Early Years in the Abbey -- Unpopular Theatre -- 6. Yeats during the First World War -- September 1913 -- August 1914 -- Easter 1916 -- October 1917 -- 7. Yeats in the 1920s -- Family Man -- Widening Gyre -- Irish Senator -- Vision -- 8. Yeats in the 1930s -- Rapallo -- Lady Gregory and Coole -- Fascist Charge -- Memory and Imagination -- Last Affair in Sussex and Death in France. Appendix 1 Chronology of the Life and Times of W.B. Yeats -- Appendix 2 Dramatics Personae in Yeats's Life and Work. Subjects: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) 1865-1939 Homes and haunts England. Poets, Irish 19th century; Biography. Poets, Irish 20th century; Biography. Irish England; Biography. England Intellectual life. Ireland Intellectual life. Genre: Biographies.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Yeats's worlds: Ireland, England, and the Poetic Imagination / David Pierce; with contemporary photographs by Dan Harper
- Author
- Pierce, David (1947-)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300063237
- ISBN 13
- 9780300063233
- Publisher
- New Haven; London: Yale Univ. Press
- Place of Publication
- Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1995
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