List of illustrations; Source illustrations; Acknowledgements;
Foreword; Family trees; Introduction; Prologue: Yeatses and
Pollexfens; 1 The Artist's Children: Sligo 1865-1881; 2
Explorations: Dublin 1881-1887;
3 Two Years: Bedford Park 1887-1889; 4 Secret Societies 1889-1891;
5 The Battles of the Books 1891-1893; 6 Lands of Heart's Desire
1894-1896; 7 Waiting for the Millennium 1896-1898; 8 Shadowy Waters
1898-1900; 9 Occult Politics 1900-1901; 10 National Dramas
1901-1902; 11 The Taste of Salt 1902-1903; 12 From America to Abbey
Street 1903-1904; 13 Delighting in Enemies 1905-1906; 14 Synge and
the Ireland of His Time 1907-1909; 15 Severances 1909-1910; 16 True
and False Irelands
1910-1911; 17 Ghosts 1911-1913; 18 Memory Harbour 1913-1914
Appendix: 'The Poet Yeats Talks Drama with Ashton Stevens', from
the San Francisco Examiner, 30 January 1904; Abbreviations; Notes;
Index.
R. F. Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at Oxford
University. Renowned as an Irish historian and biographer, his
previous books include Modern Ireland 1600-1972 and The Oxford
Illustrated History of Ireland, as well as biographies of Charles
Stewart Parnell and Lord Randolph Churchill.
Roy Foster was born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1949 and educated in
Ireland and in the United States. A graduate of Trinity College,
Dublin, where he was a Foundation Scholar in History, he
subsequently became Professor of Modern British History at Birkbeck
College, University of London, as well as holding visiting
fellowships at St Anthony's College, Oxford, the Institute of
Advanced Study, Princeton, and Princeton University. In 1991 he
became the first Carroll Professor of Irish History at
the University of Oxford and was elected a Fellow of Hertford
College. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1989.
wonderfully illuminating Seamus Deane, The Guardian will remain a central text for all admirers of Yeats Peter Ackroyd, The Times an instant classic - such style, wise humour and airy scholarship ... one to keep close by The Sunday Telegraph the fullest and most reliable account of Yeats's career ... required reading John Kelly, The Irish Times biography on the heroic scale John Carey, The Sunday Times
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