W J Mccormack: 3 books
Blood Kindred
W. B. Yeats, the Life, the Death, the Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
In June 1934, W. B. Yeats gratefully received the award of a Goethe-Plakette from Oberburgermeister Krebs, four months after his early play The Countess Cathleen had been produced in Frankfurt by SS Untersturmfuhrer Bethge. Four years later, the poet publicly commended Nazi legislation before leaving...
Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland
A Life of the Hymn-writer 1818-1895
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) was a highly original author of fantastic fiction - novels and short stories - and a key in Irish conservative poitics during the first half o the Victorian age. This outstanding biography, appearing in a new paperback edition with fresh appendix matter, explores the contradictions...
Northman: John Hewitt (1907-87)
An Irish writer, his world, and his times
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
This, the first ever biography of John Hewitt, is based on archival material, both personal and literary. In many ways it is also a biography of his wife, Roberta (nee Black), whose manuscript journal is also in the public domain. To establish Hewitt's late arrival as a poet, the book opens with a...