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W. B. Yeats: A Life Volume II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 (Wb Yeats a Life) (Hardcover)

by R. F. Foster (Author) "BY THE New Year of 1915, the year in which he would turn fifty, WBY had reluctantly left Coole, coming back to wartime London and..." (more)
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The explosive era in both Irish history and Yeats's poetry justify the length of the second volume of Oxford historian Foster's masterful life of Yeats. Again Foster approaches Yeats's memoirs with skepticism, shrewdly and scrupulously applying the historical facts to Yeats's self-made image and his poetry. The result adds a unique, superb perspective on Yeats's poetic treatment of the Easter Uprising and subsequent civil war, his eventual disenchantment with the new Irish Free State and the restless philosophical questing of his last years, up to his