Yeats, The Man And The Masks
Published on 27. January 2016
294 pages
978-1-78625-832-8 (ISBN)
Description
"e;The book helps fill in the picture of a complex and fascinating man...indispensable for the serious study of the subject."e;-Edmund Wilson, The New YorkerThe 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.
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I-INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II-FATHERS AND SONS
- From the Rectory to the Studio
- A Sceptic's Religion
- CHAPTER III-THE PRELUDE
- CHAPTER IV-CLOUD AND FOAM
- CHAPTER V-COMBATTING THE 'MATERIALISTS'
- CHAPTER VI-ROBARTES AND AHERNE
- TWO SIDES OF A PENNY
- CHAPTER VII-MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE GOLDEN DAWN
- CHAPTER VIII-OWEN AHERNE AND THE NATIONALISTS
- CHAPTER IX-SEARCH FOR UNITY
- An Irish Mystical Order
- An Irish Mystical Theatre
- CHAPTER X-MAKING A STYLE
- CHAPTER XI-THE END OF YOUTH
- CHAPTER XII-A NEW DIVISION
- CUCHULAIN
- EMER
- CUCHULAIN
- EMER
- CHAPTER XIII-SPIRITS AND MATTER: TOWARDS HARMONY
- CHAPTER XIV-ALL CHANGED, CHANGED UTTERLY
- CHAPTER XV-ESOTERIC YEATSISM: THE FLOWERING OF A DREAM
- CHAPTER XVI-SAILING TO BYZANTIUM
- CHAPTER XVII-RIGHT MASTERY OF NATURAL THINGS
- CHAPTER XVIII-REALITY
- CHAPTER XIX-CONCLUSION
- NOTES
