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The first book length study on the aesthetic and artistic power of William Butler Yeats, this book demonstrates the centrality in his work of the concept that art might shape life, from his earliest assay to the great poems and plays of his last years.

W. B. Yeats was the outstanding figure in the early years of the Irish Literary Renaissance. This study offers the fullest, most detailed picture available of Yeats's impact on that movement between 1885 and 1899 and sheds new light upon the development of the movement itself. For this new edition, Professor Marcus has added an introductory essay surveying work in the field since the original publication of the study and offering important new...

This study of W.B. Yeats' aesthetic of artistic power demonstrates his centrality regarding the concept that art might shape life. Drawing upon Irish bardic tradition, Yeats developed a stance that enabled him to reconcile literary craftsmanship, occult thought and Irish nationalism.

The first book to consider William Butler Yeats's aesthetic of artistic power, demonstrating the centrality in his work -- from his earliest essay to the great poems and plays of his last years -- of the concept that art shapes life.Drawing on the Irish bardic tradition as well as such figures as Shelley, Blake, and Wilde, Yeats developed a stance that enabled him to reconcile the exacting demands of literary craftsmanship, his interest in occ...