The Arch-Poet

by R.F. Foster

Book Overview

The first volume in Roy Foster's magisterial biography of W.B. Yeats was hailed as "a work of huge significance" (The Atlantic Monthly) and "a stupendous historiographical feat" (Irish Sunday Independent). Now, the eagerly awaited second volume explores the complex poetic, political, and personal intricacies of Yeats's dramatic final decades, a period that saw the Easter Rebellion, the founding of the Irish state in 1922, and the production of Yeats's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192806092
• ISBN13: 9780192806093
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 798 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"