Yeats - The Man and the Masks

The most influential poet of his age, Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him. In this classic critical examination of the poet, Richard Ellmann strips away the masks of his subject: occultist, senator of the Irish Free State, libidinous old man, and Nobel Prize winner.

About the author

Richard Ellmann was Goldsmiths' Professor at Oxford University and Woodruff Professor at Emory University. He achieved world fame for his biography of Joyce and wrote many scholarly and critical works, including two on Yeats.

Summary

The definitive biography of William Butler Yeats

Product details

• Authors: Richard Ellmann
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2000
• EAN: 9780393008593
• ISBN: 978-0-393-00859-3
• No. of pages: 346
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 489 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, Biography / Autobiography