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In this volume, chapters are devoted to the Lady Gregory circle, to 18th-century, Anglo-Irish culture, and to each of the poet's avowed influences, Swift, Burke, Berkeley and Goldsmith. That these are not merely thesis topics is shown in the way the author relates the respective subjects to Yeats' life and work as well as to contemporary Iish politics. Exhaustive research in Irish libraries, even into the files of provincial newspapers, has brought to light fresh data on Robert Gregory, John Shaw-Taylor, and on Yeats as a public spokesman. The quality of writing is matched by excellence in book design ...one can understand in depth Yeats' aristocratic ideal, compounded of pride, impetuous disregard of prudence, service without thought of reward, taste, versatility, above all, that "sprezzatura", recklessness, which he read of in the "Courtier - the Southern Review".

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #2634228 in Books
• Published on: 1992-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 378 pages