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Lädt ... W. B. Yeats : A Life Volume I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 (1997)von R. F. Foster
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In the first authorized biography of W. B. Yeats for over fifty years, Roy Foster sheds new light on one of the most complex and fascinating lives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Working from a great archive of personal and contemporary material, he dramatically alterstraditional perceptions to illuminate the poet's family history, relationships, politics and art.From a childhood inheritance of declasse Irish Protestantism with strong nationalist sympathies, and an exceptional and talented family background, the narrative charts Yeats's development into an original and outstanding poet. It ends in his fiftieth year with the controversies and disillusionmentaffecting his personal and public life at the time of the First World War. A bohemian life of uncertain finances, love-affairs, avant-garde friends and experiments with drugs and occultism prefaces his attempt to unite politics with high culture and his creation of an Irish national theatre.Constantly shifting between Dublin, Coole Park and London, with forays to America and Paris, ruthlessly constructing a public life as well as a creative reputation, Yeats's genius attracted admirers and enemies with equal passion. His story intersects with those of an engrossing cast of charactersincluding Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, George Moore, `AE', Ezra Pound and above all Maud Gonne - an influence eternally re-created `like the phoenix', affecting almost everything he did.The search for supernatural wisdom forms a constant thread, traced through Yeats's occult notebooks and closely related to the insecurities of his personal life. The Apprentice Mage charts the growth of a poet's mind and of an astonishing personality, both of which were instrumental in theformation of a new and radicalized Irish nationalist identity. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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If you possess a Celtic soul he will surely speak to that if you open it. From my forays into Yoga and QiGong/Taoism I realized I should look to my own mystical culture of the Celts, every bit as spiritual as the Chinese and the Indians (Amer and Continental). He was not a burn-out like some of the Beats and the Romantics like Byron & Shelley or the likes of Hart Crane and Poe here in the States. Plath and Dylan Thomas for sure, each wasting their selves in their own ways. A survivor, who, at my age, I increasingly revere, having hitherto dug the burn-outs.
Would poetry be deemed so important today. But we have more ways of disseminating ours and reading others today than ever. Perhaps John Mellencamp's vision of "a million young poets screamin' out their words" in his "Little Pink Houses" (I'm a Hoosier) is now realized, and this is the "maybe someday their voice will be heard." But it is all so obviously and befuddingly diverse. We do indeed live in interesting times. A blessing or a curse?