1997 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner
W.B. Yeats: A Life: Volume 1. The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914
R.F. Foster
This is the first volume in what will be the definitive biography of William Butler Yeats. The text, written by eminent Irish historian R.F. Foster, illuminates not only the wellspring of Yeats’ artistic vision, but the modern Irish identity he helped to c…