'Pocket Book of W.B. Yeats'
| By: | Tony Potter |
| Publisher: | Gill |
| Published: | January 2017 |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Categories: | Biography |
| Available as: | Hardback |
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'A Neat and accessible introduction the life, work and times of W. B. Yeats. William Butler Yeats ranks among the greatest literary talents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though best-known as the author of poems as timeless and delicately crafted as The Lake Isle of Innisfree and for his unrequited love of Maud Gonne, he exerted a remarkable influence in many other aspects of Irish life: a brother to the artist Jack B. Yeats, he was also a leading light of the Irish Literary Revival, founder of the Abbey Theatre and two-term senator. This volume forms a compact introduction to his life and the events shaped his work. '
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