Augustine Martin (1935–1995)
Autore di Soundings: Leaving Certificate Poetry Interim Anthology
Opere di Augustine Martin
Opere correlate
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Martin, Thomas Augustine
- Data di nascita
- 1935-11-13
- Data di morte
- 1995-10-16
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ireland
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Ireland
- Luogo di nascita
- Ballinamore, County Leitrim, Ireland
- Istruzione
- University College Dublin (BA, MA, PhD)
- Attività lavorative
- Literary Critic, Politician (Irish Senator)
English professor, University College Dublin - Relazioni
- Kennedy, Claire (wife)
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 13
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 145
- Popolarità
- #142,479
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 24
- Lingue
- 1
In Ein springender Brunnen the German author Martin Walser suggested that the rise of fascism was in part due to the ongoing struggles between communists and fascists, while the people who were wary of politics languished in a dream-like state, adhering to esoteric beliefs and eastern philosophy. Yeats didn't get married until 1916, when he was already 51 years old, to Georgie Hyde Lees, who was deeply interested in spirituality. Together with their interest in traditional culture, Yeats manifested interest in fascism. His biographer, however, states that the larger picture should be taken into account, that "the age was desperate, time out of joint" (p.112). Since 1922, Yeats was a member of the Irish Senate, a body fiercely and violently opposed. His final years, his years of fame, particularly after winning the Nobel Prize in 1923, were dominated by political struggle.… (altro)