Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W. B. Yeats. Ann Saddlemyer

Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W. B. Yeats



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Language: English
Page: 760
ISBN: 0198112327, 9780585486383

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"Majestic.... In Saddlemyer, George Yeats has found a biographer perfectly suited to her.... Steeped in its subject, [the book] also provides an excellent, detailed portrait of the poet's life in his last two decades, far better than Yeats' own biographers have done. Becoming George is a delight to read: authoritative, sympathetic and insightful, it stands as a refreshing contrast to the overheated 'Yeats's Ghosts' (1999).... This is good, straightforward, old-fashioned biography, packed with information and useful for the Yeats aficionado and the novice reader alike."--Martin Rubin, The San Francisco Chronicle


"Ann Saddlemyer has written a profound, exhaustive, and richly evocative life of this truly remarkable woman.... In drawing her subject forward into the light Saddlemyer has exercised an admirable discretion and sense of balance along with an almost fierce devotion to the facts. Becoming George is...the product, surely, of a lifetime of study and thought and discrimination. As a young scholar...Saddlemyer came to know George Yeats, and was a good friend of her daughter Anne, and the warmth of affection for George and the Yeats family permeates the book and brings it to life."--John Banville, The New York Review of Books


"Saddlemyer has at last delivered the life of this remarkable woman in encyclopaedic detail.... Saddlemyer is gratifyingly frank in discussing Georgie's psychological make-up."--Brenda Maddox, The Guardian


"Saddlemyer's wise, majestic biography...is a masterpiece, an extraordinary achievement."--The Globe and Mail


"Advanced reader will appreciate the copious endnotes and a view of a side Yeats absent from other biographies"--Choice


"Uncommonly readable, marked by an acuity of emotional and literary insight...fun to read." --The Nation


About the Author


Ann Saddlemyer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. She is one of the General Editors of the Cornell Yeats series (publishing the MSS of the entire Yeats canon); and on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, the Irish Studies Review, the Irish University Review, the Correspondence of Bernard Shaw, and the Shaw Annual; and co-founder of the journal Theatre Research in Canada. She was awarded the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Award for Criticism for her Collected Letters of John Millington Synge (OUP).



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