The Life of W.B. Yeats, Terence Brown

by Terence Brown

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Can't find what you're looking for? Home page About us Feedback Payment Delivery Customer Service Contact us Shop by Price $10.34 $10.35 - $12.34 $12.35 - $14.34 $14.35 - $16.34 $16.35+ Shop pages Home page Payment Delivery Customer Service About the seller Need help? Send an eBay message Newsletter Add World of Books to your favourites and receive email newsletters about special promotions! General Interest The Life of W.B. Yeats Product Details: Category: Books ISBN: 071713248X Title: The Life of W.B. Yeats The Fast Free Shipping Author: Terence Brown Publisher: Gill Year Published: 2001 Number of Pages: 434 Book Binding: Paperback Prizes: N/A Book Condition: VERYGOOD SKU: CIN071713248XVG Item description The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with great force that it is this preoccupation which lies at the root of his personality and which is the key to so much else. His hatred of late Victorian materialism informed not just his poetry but also his involvement with the Irish nationalism cause. For all his Irish nationalism, however, there was also an 'English Yeats to which Brown gives very full attention. The poet was formed by his English experience as much as his Irish, and he lived nearly half his adult life in London. Brilliantly written, Terence Brown's biography is the most complete and unified picture yet published of Ireland's greatest poet. Please note, the image i

• ISBN: 071713248X
• Condition: Very Good

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