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100 1 $aBrown, Terence,$d1944-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79119107
245 14 $aThe life of W.B. Yeats :$ba critical biography /$cTerence Brown.
260 $aMalden, Mass. :$bBlackwell,$c1999.
263 $a9910
300 $axiii, 410 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aBlackwell critical biographies ;$v12
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"W.B. Yeats, widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century, believed that the life of a lyric poet was an experiment in living that should be told. This new critical biography seeks to tell that story as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and public figure.
520 8 $aIt considers a career that began in the late Victorian world of 1880s and 1890s London, which involved a deep commitment to the life of an emergent Ireland in the twentieth century, disillusionment and the alienation from the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"A central focus of this study is Yeat's perennial pursuit of sacral power which he saw as being vested in traditional institutions. It examines how at various stages of his life he sought to acquire this power for himself in such 'institutions' as a magical order, a nation, a theatre, the community of the dead, and climatically, an occult marriage.
520 8 $aThe concluding stages of the book assess Yeat's final years as a crisis of that faith in institutions, which had hitherto sustained him in all he attempted."--BOOK JACKET. "In this book all Yeat's major works as poet and dramatist are considered in the contexts in which they came to be written and published."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aYeats, W. B.$q(William Butler),$d1865-1939.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095579
651 0 $aIreland$xIntellectual life$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115510
651 0 $aIreland$xIntellectual life$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115504
650 0 $aPoets, Irish$y19th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109448
650 0 $aPoets, Irish$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109449
830 0 $aBlackwell critical biographies ;$v12.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91128050
852 00 $bbar$hPR5906$i.B76 1999
852 00 $bglx$hPR5906$i.B76 1999