Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781853264030
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Works of W. B. Yeats
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781853264030
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Yeats
Author: Harold Bloom The Major Works
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780192842831
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by plays, critical writings, and letters - to give theessence of his work and thinking.W. B. Yeats was born in 1865, only 38 years after the death of William Blake, and died in 1939, the contemporary of Ezra Pound and James Joyce. His career crossed two centuries, and this volume represents the full range of his achievement, from the Romantic early poems of Crossways and thesymbolist masterpiece The Wind Among the Reeds to his last poems. Myth and folk-tale influence both his poems and his plays, represented here by Cathleen ni Houlihan and Deirdre among others. The importance of the spirit world to his life and work is evident in his critical essays and occultwritings, and the anthology also contains political speeches, autobiographical writings, and a selection of his letters.This one-volume collection of poems and prose offers a unique perspective on the connectedness of Yeats's literary output, showing how his aesthetic, spiritual, and political development was reflected in everything he wrote.
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684807335
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume XIII: A Vision is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholar George Bornstein and formerly the late Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. One of the strangest works of literary modernism, A Vision is Yeats's greatest occult work. Edited by Yeats scholars Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper, the volume presents the "system" of philosophy, psychology, history, and the life of the soul that Yeats and his wife George (née Hyde Lees) received and created by means of mediumistic experiments from 1917 through the early 1920s. Yeats obsessively revised the book, and the revised 1937 version is much more widely available than its predecessor. The original 1925 version of A Vision, poetic, unpolished, masked in fiction, and close to the excitement of the automatic writing that the Yeatses believed to be its supernatural origin, is presented here in a scholarly edition for the first time. The text, minimally corrected to retain the sense of the original, is extensively annotated, with particular attention paid to the relationship between the published book and its complex genetic materials. Indispensable to an understanding of the poet's late work and entrancing on its own merit, A Vision aims to be, all at once, a work of theoretical history, an esoteric philosophy, an aesthetic symbology, a psychological schema, and a sacred book. It is as difficult as it is essential reading for any student of Yeats.
Yeats Now
Author: Joseph M. HassettPublisher:
ISBN: 9781843517788
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A commentary on Yeats' life and thought
Yeats the Initiate
Author: Kathleen RainePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389209515
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The eminent poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, leading exponent of "the learning of the imagination," brings together all her essays on Yeats (some never before printed) covering many aspects of the traditions and influences that informed his great poetry. In saluting Raine's "magnificent achievement in this rich and learned book," Professor Augustine Martin of University College Dublin states that she "irradiates [Yeats] and every corner of his work. Her unique and unanswerable contribution to Yeatsian criticism is to establish his authority as an immensely learned poet and thinker in the tradition of Plato and the Eternal Philosophy." Contains over 140 illustrations.
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats: Poems lyrical and narrative
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Making the Void Fruitful
Author: Patrick J. KeanePublisher:
ISBN: 9781800643246
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Shedding fresh light on the life and work of William Butler Yeats--widely acclaimed as the major English-language poet of the twentieth century--this new study by leading scholar Patrick J. Keane questions established understandings of the Irish poet's long fascination with the occult: a fixation that repelled literary contemporaries T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, but which enhanced Yeats's vision of life and death. Through close reading of selected poems, the first section of Making the Void Fruitful assesses Yeats's spiritualised treatment of corporeal themes, exploring sex and eroticism as the expression of a duality inherent to his ontological and supernatural convictions. The power-producing tension in Yeats's work is not only intellectual but emotional. At its vital centre is his Muse: the beautiful political firebrand, Maud Gonne, whose activist Republican politics he considered his one real rival. Through close engagement with the poems and plays she inspired, the second section explores Yeats's complex relationship with Maud, an obsessive and unrequited love which he sublimated and transformed into the greatest body of Muse poetry since Petrarch, in whose tradition of spiritualized eroticism Yeats, perhaps the last of the great Romantics, was consciously writing. Shaped by the conviction that no modern poet exceeded Yeats in animating the enduring themes of love and spirituality through poetry, this book emphasises the influence, of Blake, Nietzsche, and John Donne, on what Yeats called 'the thinking of the body'. Grounded firmly in the textual materiality of Yeats's oeuvre, this book will be of interest to researchers and students of W.B. Yeats, as well as to those in the fields of Anglophone literatures and cultures, and philosophy.
Poems of W.B. Yeats
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: Palgrave
ISBN: 9780333362143
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
W.B. Yeats: The arch-poet, 1915-1939
Author: Robert Fitzroy FosterPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198184652
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Recounts the life of the Irish poet and nationalist, describes his relationships with his contemporaries, and traces his interest in the occult.