Blood Kindred: W.B. Yeats: The Life, the Death, the Politics

by W.J. McCormack

In June 1934, W. B. Yeats gratefully received the award of a Goethe-Plakette from Oberburgermeister Krebs, four months after his early play The Countess Cathleen had been produced in Frankfurt by SS Untersturmfuhrer Bethge. Four years later, the poet publicly commended Nazi legislation before leaving Dublin to die in southern France. These hitherto neglected, isolated and scandalous details stand at the heart of this reflective study of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712665145
• ISBN13: 9780712665148
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Length: 482 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The a-linkening

The product of many years of detailed, analytical and painstaking research. Brimming with references and details of the people and events of Yeats life and times. As such it is a great opening for further study into modern Ireland and modern literature. I do think that there are many incidences of repetation and there is definately some scholastic axe grinding going on. On the whole it is a good read and highly recommended. Conflicts raised are necessary and a good reflection on the life of a poet who lived for more than 40 years on the edge of a wave of turbulent changes.