Yeats biography foster

At some point in life, the person of even modest ambition must confront his limitations. At the very least, time on earth is finite. Some balance between family and work must be struck, however lopsided, and as age creeps in, so must health be provisioned for.

For the poet, middle age can be deceiving, as poetry can be written and written well in old age, and the desire to live life to the lees can incur a certain degree of distraction, especially for the poet who has achieved early success.

W.B. Yeats : a life : Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy), 1949 ...

For Yeats, heading into his 50th year, biographer R.F. Foster identifies the fulcrum, the inflection point at which Yeats would reconfigure his life in hopes of maximizing his impact and legacy. This is where his spellbinding and utterly captivating volume two begins. In the opening chapters, Yeats expands his friendship and collaboration with Ezra Pound.

Rejected for the last time by Maud Gonne, Yeats considers marrying her daughter W. B. Yeats, a Life - Foster, R. F.: 9780199273089 - AbeBooks BUK