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Magnificent biography. The Arch-Poet completes a brilliant work of historical and literary investigation. It is incisive wothout being judgmental, cautionary without being caustic and, above all, a compelling read. Roy Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford, and a fellow of Hertford College. He has written widely on Irish history, society, and politics in the modern period, as well as on Victorian high politics and culture, and his publications include Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life (Oxford, 1981), Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (London, 1988), and The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making it up in Ireland(London, 2001). The first volume of this biography, W.B. Yeats, A Life. I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 was published by OUP in 1997. Klappentext The second and final volume in Roy Foster's acclaimed biography of W. B. Yeats covers the second half of Yeats's life, taking in his controversial political involvements, continued supernatural experiments, his extraordinary marriage, a series of love affairs, and the writing of his greatest poetry. Life and work are woven closely together to create a rich, new, uniquely authoritative, and immensely involving treatment of one of the greatest lives of moderntimes. Zusammenfassung A biography of W B Yeats, it covers the second half of Yeats' life, taking in his controversial political involvements, continued supernatural experiments, his extraordinary marriage, a series of love affairs, and the writing of his greatest poetry. It also weaves together his life and work.
