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The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 (W. B. Yeats a Life Vol. 1)

By Foster, R. F.

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This is the first volume in what will be the definitive biography of William Butler Yeats. The text, written by eminent Irish historian R.F. Foster, illuminates not only the wellspring of Yeats' artistic vision, but the modern Irish identity he helped to create.

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ISBN
978-0-19510-125-6
Publisher
Oxford University Press


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Reviewed on April 1, 1997

Like a youth groomed for greatness, Foster (Paddy and Mr. Punch, Viking 1994) begins the first part of his two-volume biography of Yeats by thanking the literary parents it means to surpass, especially Richard Ellmann's Yeats: The Man and the Masks (1978). While Ellmann writes penetratingly on the major themes of Yeats's life...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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