R. F. Foster, Words Alone: Yeats and his Inheritances (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xix + 236.
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1 juin 2015
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littérature irlandaise poésie Irish literature Irish poetry Literature, British Isles Poetry LIT004120 DSBSujets proches
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Geraldine Higgins, « R. F. Foster, Words Alone: Yeats and his Inheritances (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xix + 236. », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.g6wfo0
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Yeats spent the first half of his life suffering from the anxiety of influence and the second half, wrestling with anxiety about succession. Approaching fifty, he apologizes to his ancestors that their bloodline has dwindled to an ink line, ‘I have no child | I have nothing but a book | Nothing but that to prove your blood and mine.’ The first volume of Roy Foster’s monumental biography of Yeats ends in 1914 with this poignant self-assessment: It is not that I have accomplished too few of my ...