A W. B. Yeats chronology by Kelly, John S. (1942-) - 2003

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2003. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.. Series; Author chronologies. Physical description; xvii, 367 p.; 23 cm. Notes; Includes index. ""Works by W.B. Yeats"": p. xi-xii. Contents; General Editor's Preface Introduction and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations and Works Cited A William Butler Yeats Chronology Index Index of Titles. Summary; W.B.Yeats, one of the greatest poets who wrote in English, was also a playwright, theatre director, essayist, Senator of the Irish Free State, and life-long occultist. He knew practically every important figure in the cultural and public life of his time, including Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Herbert Asquith, Ezra Pound, Sean O'Casey and Eamon de Valera. In tracing these connections, in recording his public controversies and private concerns, as well as providing details of his many hundred books, plays, reviews and essays, this Chronology bears vivid witness to a life which was not only of major literary and cultural importance, but which also offers important insights into contemporary political, intellectual and social networks. T.S.Eliot observed that Yeats was 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time' and this Chronology indicates just how implicated he was in that history. Subjects; Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939) - Chronology. Poets, Irish - 19th century - Chronology. Poets, Irish - 20th century - Chronology. Literary studies: 19th century. English ; Ireland. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Yeats, William Butler. Genres; Bibliography. Biography.