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Zusatztext magnificently authoritative biography...a thoroughly enjoyable though highly demanding read Informationen zum Autor Awarded the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Award for criticism, 1986, for her 2-volume Letters of J. M. Synge (OUP). She is one of the General Editors of the Cornell Yeats series (publishing the MSS of the entire Yeats canon); and on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, the Irish Studies Review, the Irish University Review, the Correspondence of Bernard Shaw, and the Shaw Annual; and co-founder of the journal Theatre Research inCanada. Klappentext Ann Saddlemyer's biography of W. B. Yeats's wife, George, portrays an extraordinarily talented, intelligent, and self-effacing woman, whose creative influence has never before been fully understood. She was wife and manager of a famous poet, and mother to his children, but in her own right also an inspired visionary and a practical woman of the arts. Georgie Hyde Lees was raised in London's literary salons, where arts, anthroposophy and the occult met. Anaccomplished linguist, art student and literary scholar, she married W. B. Yeats when she was 25, and he 52. Her supernatural 'automatic writing' became the inspiration of Yeats's poetry and thought for the last 20 years of his life, yet she always concealed the depth of their collaboration. Close friend ofmany writers and poets, among them Frank O'Connor and Ezra Pound, she spent her long widowhood steering the 'Yeats industry' and actively assisting younger scholars and writers. Zusammenfassung Ann Saddlemyer's biography of W. B. Yeats's wife, George, portrays an extraordinarily talented, intelligent, and self-effacing woman, whose creative influence has never before been fully understood. An accomplished linguist, art student and literary scholar, she married W. B. Yeats when she was 25, and he 52.
