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Yeats Revisited

The Continuing Legacy
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This new book by the seasoned and internationally acclaimed critic, David Pierce, provides further evidence that William Butler Yeats is still our contemporary but still in need of the critic. From a position which is at once inside and outside history, Yeats manages to hold our attention still. He continues to intrigue critics and readers alike. Lines from his poems are regularly quoted to clinch a viewpoint or judgement on the age we live in.
Professor David Pierce taught at York St John University. He is an internationally noted author, publishing since 1979. The main focus of his work is Joyce, Yeats and the history of modern Irish writing. His books include the anthology, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century (2000), his highly-regarded memoir, The Long Apprenticeship (2012), three books with Yale University Press: James Joyce's Ireland (1992), Yeats's Worlds (1995), Light, Freedom and Song (2005), and two recent titles with Edward Everett Root: The Joyce Country: ?Literary Scholarship and Irish Culture (2018), James Joyce's Portrait: ?A New Reading (2019).
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