Images of Ireland

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William Butler Yeats once said of Ireland: 'I have loved you better than my soul.' Son of a much-respected painter and brother of a remarkable one, this great poet had a fine eye for Ireland's landscape and a true perception of its beauty.
Alain Le GarsmeuR'S superbly varied and evocative photographs record what the modern traveller can still see of the Ireland that Yeats knew. His pictures accompany a succession of key extracts from the poet's verses, plays, essays and memoirs - passages that recall the landscapes that he loved and, at the same time, illuminate the landscape of the writer's mind - the mind of a poet hailed as the twentieth century's greatest.
Here are the cloud-encircled masses of Ben Bulben and Knocknarea, the mystical mountains and mysterious haunted glens of Co. Sligo which fascinated Yeats throughout his life. We walk through Inchy Wood and rest at Rosses Point where 'few countrymen would fall asleep under its low clifF for fear of their souls being carried... Tovább

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William Butler Yeats once said of Ireland: 'I have loved you better than my soul.' Son of a much-respected painter and brother of a remarkable one, this great poet had a fine eye for Ireland's landscape and a true perception of its beauty.
Alain Le GarsmeuR'S superbly varied and evocative photographs record what the modern traveller can still see of the Ireland that Yeats knew. His pictures accompany a succession of key extracts from the poet's verses, plays, essays and memoirs - passages that recall the landscapes that he loved and, at the same time, illuminate the landscape of the writer's mind - the mind of a poet hailed as the twentieth century's greatest.
Here are the cloud-encircled masses of Ben Bulben and Knocknarea, the mystical mountains and mysterious haunted glens of Co. Sligo which fascinated Yeats throughout his life. We walk through Inchy Wood and rest at Rosses Point where 'few countrymen would fall asleep under its low clifF for fear of their souls being carried away. In Galway we come to Lady Gregory's Coole Park, where many of Yeats's verse-plays were conceived, and we rediscover Yeats's own tower at Ballylee, the setting for some of his greatest poems. We visit the royal haunts of'Cashel of the Kings' and the Hill of Tara, and contemplate Lough Derg, one of Ireland's most important places of pilgrimage. Finally, we are drawn to Dublin, scene of Yeats's public battles as poet and playwright, patriot and politician, and the scene also of his ill-fated love for the wild and beautiful Maud Gonne.
Bernard McCabe follows an informative chronology of the poet's life with a lively introductory essay, which places the quoted extracts and stunning photographs in their context, so allowing the general reader to learn more about Yeats as a writer and a native of Ireland.
Images of Ireland is at once a marvellous visual record of a beautiful land, a valuable introduction to the poet's work, and a stimulating and inexhaustible companion for those who already know and love it. Vissza