Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances

by R.F. Foster

Book Overview

Roy Foster's two-volume biography of Yeats was hailed in the New York Review of Books as "a triumph of scholarship, thought, and empathy such as one would hardly have thought possible in this age of disillusion." Now, Foster turns his focus to the largely unacknowledged influences that shaped the young W.B. Yeats.
So dramatic and revolutionary was Yeats' impact on Irish literature that the writers and traditions that preceded him are often overlooked,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199592160
• ISBN13: 9780199592166
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"