W.B. Yeats, widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet
of the twentieth century, believed that the life of a lyric poet
was an experiment in living that should be told. This new critical
biography seeks to tell that story as it unfolded in the various
contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as a public figure.
It considers a career that began in the late Victorian world of
1880s and 1890s London, which involved a deep commitment to the
life of an emergent Ireland in the twentieth century,
disillusionment and the alienation from the modern world that made
Yeats, who began as a symbolist poet, one of the major figures of
the Modernist movement in the second decade of the century.
A central focus of this study is Yeats's perennial pursuit of
sacral power which he saw as being vested in traditional
institutions. It examines how at various stages of his life he
sought to acquire such power for himself in such "institutions" as
a magical order, a nation, a theatre, the community of the dead,
and, climactically, an occult marriage. The concluding stages of
the book assess Yeats's final years as a crisis of that faith in
institutions, which had hitherto sustained him in all he attempted.
At the last only the institution of the verse itself retained its
efficacy in the end.
This study allows us to gain a much deeper appreciation of the
poet's engagement with occult knowledge and power and with
spiritualist illumination. It explores this problematic aspect of
the poet's career as bearing on key elements in the experience of
modernity: the roles of science and religion, the emancipation of
women and the artistic representation of the body.
In this book allYeats's major works as poet and dramatist are
considered in the contexts in which they came to be written and
published.
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