Yeats Now: Echoing into Life

W. B. Yeats believed that a poet's life should be an experiment in living, and his poems capture the emotions surrounding significant life events. Joseph M. Hassett's book, Yeats Now: Echoing into Life, extracts and distills the rich harvest of Yeats's thoughts and writings, showcasing his ringing statements, suggestions, and aphorisms as a guide to life. The subjects cover love, anger, friendship, politics, violence, and the competing claims of perfecting life or work. This book is a wonderful companion to Yeats's work.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 02 October 2020
Publisher: The Lilliput Press Ltd

W. B. Yeats believed that a poet's life should be an experiment in living. His poems capture the often perplexing emotions that linger over significant life events, transforming them into unforgettable words. Yeats's remarkable work offers valuable insights into our own thoughts and experiences regarding similar situations. Joseph M. Hassett's Yeats Now: Echoing into Life meticulously extracts and distills the abundant harvest of Yeats's experiment. As Yeats's biographer Roy Foster remarks, Yeats Now is a personal, inquisitive, imaginative testament that traverses Yeats's thought and writings, showcasing and discussing a series of resonant statements, suggestions, and aphorisms that evolve into a kind of vade-mecum or guide to life. The subjects covered in this book encompass love, anger, friendship, politics, violence, and the competing demands of perfecting one's life or one's work. This book serves as a delightful companion to the work of this renowned poet. Hassett's writing provides an excellent framework for exploring one of Ireland's greatest poets.

Weight: 292g
Dimension: 208 x 138 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781843517788