W.B. Yeats

by A. Norman Jeffares

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Genres: Poetry, Biography, History, Ireland

117 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Alexander Norman "Derry" Jeffares was an Irish literary scholar.

Reviews

[Paul Christensen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would have liked to have learned more about his interactions with O’Duffys’s fascist Blueshirts, which must have been significant as he was writing marching songs for them.

Leaving aside such omissions, the book isn’t bad for an overall impression, including his complex relation to Irish nationalism.

‘As always, Yeats yearned for a society where all classes would share in a half-mythological half-philosophical folk belief.’ p.212.

That’s supposed to be bad???

[Andrea Taylor · Rating 3 out of 5]

I learned about one of my favourite poets and how he lived his life. His poetry, his interests and his passions. Yeats wrote some of the most beautiful poetry of the 20th Century and this book gives some insight into how that poetry came about.