W. B. Yeats: Selected Poems
Description
William Butler Yeats was not only one of the most beloved and honored poets of this century. Playwright, essayist, theatrical impresario, occultist, politician, famously hapless lover--he was also one of the most colorful and complex. Astonishingly, no full biography of Yeats has appeared in many years. Now, Keith Alldritt gives us a lively telling of Yeats's story that puts the poet in the context of his times, from the high Victorian era to the modernism of the thirties.Alldritt reveals that Yeats was not just "the sensitive introvert who began as the mooning dreamer and after a...
ISBN(s)
051707396X, 9780517073964
