What Yeats Looks for: Perfection of A Life or Art

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This essay furst attempts to study in the main two major publications: one is R.F. Foster’s great biographical work and the other David Pierce’s good book, which is scholarly and looks beautiful as well, and then will ask a question: what’s the purpose of these books? What does Yeats really look for: perfection of a life or art? We now have excellent biographical and critical works of Yeats and his work. We have scholars and biographers and poets that could have their say in the matter of Yeats’s life and/or work. Of them, Richard Ellmann seems to be the strongest biographer scholar who could both look into Yeats and his work, and feel what Yeats’s work is; R.F. Foster’s unique eye as a historian helps our eye look into what Yeats has done in his life; T.R. Henn’s approach, for example, seems straightforward as he deals with Yeats as poet and with his poems in depth without going astray very much. Other biographers and scholars have works as valuable as the three above. I would also like to deal with some scholars writing and editing Yeats’s poems as their needs arise. Some, however, seem to have bent and cut Yeats’s poems to fit them into their purposes, without knowing what harm this could do Yeats and his poetry, which. I would point to. My aim here is not that I serve as a judge of their work, but would like to put Yeats’s work into a proper dimension. Yeats as Modern poet seems to have been misunderstood or underestimated as Modern poet, when we label him as a Last Romantic, the term Yeats himself has first coined.

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