W. B. Yeats: The Cutting of an Agate, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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CONTENTS

Preface

Thoughts on Lady Gregory's Translations
I. Cuchulain and his Cycle
II. Fion and his Cycle

Preface to the First Edition of the Well of the Saints

Discoveries
Prophet, Priest and King
Personality and the Intellectual Essences
The Musician and the Orator
A Guitar Player
The Looking-glass
The Tree of Life
The Praise of Old Wives' Tales
The Play of Modern Manners
Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own?
Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times was made a Poet
Concerning Saints and Artists
The Subject Matter of Drama
The Two Kinds of Asceticism
In the Serpent's Mouth
The Black and the White Arrows
His Mistress's Eyebrows
The Tresses of the Hair
A Tower on the Apennines
The Thinking of the Body
Religious Belief Necessary to Religious Art
The Holy Places

Poetry and Tradition
Preface to the First Edition of John M. Synge's Poems and Translations

J. M. Synge and the Ireland of his Time

The Tragic Theatre

John Shawe-Taylor

Edmund Spenser

About the Author

William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.

A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland. His father practised law and was a successful portrait painter. He was educated in Dublin and London and spent his childhood holidays in County Sligo. He studied poetry from an early age, when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. While in London he became part of the Irish literary revival. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats, William Wordsworth, William Blake and many more. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, lasting roughly from his student days at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin until the turn of the century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart's Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940). ...(wikipedia. org)