The Cambridge Introduction To Wb Yeats
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| Author | : David Holdeman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 127 |
| Release | : 2006-09-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 113945787X |
This introduction to one of the twentieth century's most important writers examines Yeats's poems, plays and stories in relation to biographical, literary, and historical contexts. Yeats wrote with passion and eloquence about personal disappointments, his obsession with Ireland, and the modern era's loss of faith in traditional beliefs about art, religion, empire, social class, gender and sex. His works uniquely reflect the gradual transition from Victorian aestheticism to the modernism of Pound, Eliot and Joyce. This is the first introductory study to consider his work in all genres in light of the latest biographies, new editions of his letters and manuscripts, and recent accounts by feminist and postcolonial critics. While using this introduction, students will have instant access to the world of current Yeats scholarship as well as being provided with the essential facts about his life and literary career and suggestions for further reading.
| Author | : Marjorie Elizabeth Howes |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2006-05-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521650895 |
A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major themes of this important poet's life and career.
| Author | : Kelly |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2006 |
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| ISBN | : 9781107485136 |
| Author | : David Holdeman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015-12-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9781107456808 |
W. B. Yeats is a writer who requires, and at the same time tests the limits of, contextual study. More than perhaps any other Irish writer, he produced his own context as much as it produced him. His cultural and political activities, combined with his prolific literary output, made an impact that can only be understood by close attention to his words in relation to the times in which he lived. W. B. Yeats in Context maps Yeats' world in concise, lively essays by distinguished critics and historians. The places, people, themes and intellectual frameworks most important to his development receive close attention, as do his artistic influences, and the production and reception of his work. As a gateway into the study of Yeats, this volume offers much new information for both students, scholars and anyone interested in the life and times of this enigmatic and influential poet.
| Author | : Justin Quinn |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2008-04-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521846738 |
Over the last two centuries, Ireland has produced some of the world's most outstanding and best-loved poets, from Thomas Moore to W. B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney. This introduction not only provides an essential overview of the history and development of poetry in Ireland, but also offers new approaches to aspects of the field. Justin Quinn argues that the language issues of Irish poetry have been misconceived and re-examines the divide between Gaelic and Anglophone poetry. Quinn suggests an alternative to both nationalist and revisionist interpretations and fundamentally challenges existing ideas of Irish poetry. This lucid book offers a rich contextual background against which to read the individual works, and pays close attention to the major poems and poets. Readers and students of Irish poetry will learn much from Quinn's sharp and critically acute account.
| Author | : Peter Howarth |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2011-11-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139502328 |
Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English.
| Author | : Gerald Dawe |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 473 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108420354 |
A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.
| Author | : Pericles Lewis |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2007-05-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1316224309 |
More than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Modernist art and literature remain thought of as complex and difficult. This introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres. Pericles Lewis offers students a survey of literature and art in England, Ireland and Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. He also provides an overview of critical thought on modernism and its continuing influence on the arts today, reflecting the interests of current scholarship in the social and cultural contexts of modernism. The comparative perspective on Anglo-American and European modernism shows how European movements have influenced the development of English-language modernism. Illustrated with works of art and featuring suggestions for further study, this is the ideal introduction to understanding and enjoying modernist literature and art.
| Author | : Robert Snukal |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 1973-06-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521200571 |
Snukal takes Yeats' most ambitious philosophical poems, and situates them in the British romantic tradition inaugurated by Coleridge's and Wordworth's theories of the imagination, and the European philosophical tradition of idealism inaugurated by Kant and Hegel.
| Author | : Neil Corcoran |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2007-12-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 113982810X |
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.
