Author: Richard Ellmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: Richard Ellmann
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786258323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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“The book helps fill in the picture of a complex and fascinating man...indispensable for the serious study of the subject.”—Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker The most influential poet of his age, Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him. In this classic critical examination of the poet, Richard Ellmann strips away the masks of his subject: occultist, senator of the Irish Free State, libidinous old man, and Nobel Prize winner.

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Author: Robert Fitzroy Foster
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198184652
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 798

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Recounts the life of the Irish poet and nationalist, describes his relationships with his contemporaries, and traces his interest in the occult.

Author: Helen Vendler
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026957
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of ones quarrels with others while poetry is the expression of ones quarrel with oneself. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poets mind.

Author: David A. Ross
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438126921
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 673

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Examines the life and writings of William Butler Yeats, including a biographical sketch, detailed synopses of his works, social and historical influences, and more.

Author: Michael O'Neill
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415234764
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Author: Richard Ellmann
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393008593
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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A critical biography of the great Irish poet traces his intellectual growth and relates his mystical concerns and involvement in public affairs to his poetry.

Author: Brian Arkins
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389209133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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To Yeats, as well as to Eliot, Pound, Joyce, and other major writers, as Erich Auerbach put it in Mimesis, "Antiquity means liberation and a broadening of horizons, not in any sense a new limitation or servitude." That is why Greco-Roman themes can be endlessly stimulating, why Yeats could call the Greek and Roman writers "the builders of my soul." Brian Arkin's thematic consideration of Yeat's subject matter under philosophy, myth, religion, history, literature, visual art, and Byzantium, allows us to see coherently how Yeats exploited this material and how, especially in his middle and later periods, he transformed and metamorphosed subject matter from Homer, Phidias, Plato, Plotinus, and Sophocles, and from the myths of Dionysus, Helen of Troy, Leda, and Zeus, to exemplify his central preoccupations. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 32.

Author: Warwick Gould
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783740185
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Yeats's Mask, Yeats Annual No. 19 is a special issue in this renowned research-level series. Fashionable in the age of Wilde, the Mask changes shape until it emerges as Mask in the system of A Vision. Chronologically tracing the concept through Yeats's plays and those poems written as 'texts for exposition' of his occult thought which flowers in A Vision itself (1925 and 1937), the volume also spotlights 'The Mask before The Mask' numerous plays including Cathleen Ni-Houlihan, The King's Threshold, Calvary, The Words upon the Window-pane, A Full Moon in March and The Death of Cuchulain. There are excurses into studies of Yeats's friendship with the Oxford don and cleric, William Force Stead, his radio broadcasts, the Chinese contexts for his writing of 'Lapis Lazuli'. His self-renewal after The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, and the key occult epistolary exchange 'Leo Africanus', edited from MSS by Steve L. Adams and George Mills Harper, is republished from the elusive Yeats Annual No. 1 (1982). The essays are by David Bradshaw, Michael Cade-Stewart, Aisling Carlin, Warwick Gould, Margaret Mills Harper, Pierre Longuenesse, Jerusha McCormack, Neil Mann, Emilie Morin, Elizabeth Muller and Alexandra Poulain, with shorter notes by Philip Bishop and Colin Smythe considering Yeats's quatrain upon remaking himself and the pirate editions of The Land of Heart's Desire. Ten reviews focus on various volumes of the Cornell Yeats MSS Series, his correspondence with George Yeats, and numerous critical studies. Yeats Annual is published by Open Book Publishers in association with the Institute of English Studies, University of London.