Yeats's Worlds,David Pierce

HB-DJ 1995 1st edition, 20cm x 26.5cm, 346pp, illustrated throughout. The book is in excellent condition, tight and clean, free from writing and damage. The jacket is in very good condition too. I have taken the time to take many detailed photos of the book (which is the actual book for sale) showing both it's contents and condition. Please look closely at these photos so you can see exactly what you are bidding on.\nWilliam Butler Yeats was Ireland's leading poet, chief architect of the Irish Literary Revival, and, according to T.S. Eliot, \""one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them\"". In this study, David Pierce offers a perspective that attends as much to Yeats's English contexts as his Irish ones, and to the preoccupations of his art. If he was critical of British attitudes towards Ireland, the book states, Yeats was also much taken with English life, with the coterie a.