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 | : 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 | : M. Jimmie Killingsworth |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 123 |
| Release | : 2007-03-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139462288 |
Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a historical personality in the era of the American Civil War, the growth of the great cities, and the westward expansion of the United States. Always a controversial and important figure, Whitman continues to attract the admiration of poets, artists, critics, political activists, and readers around the world. Those studying his work for the first time will find this an invaluable book. Alongside close readings of the major texts, chapters on Whitman's biography, the history and culture of his time, and the critical reception of his work provide a comprehensive understanding of Whitman and of how he has become such a central figure in the American literary canon.
| Author | : Emma Smith |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 6 |
| Release | : 2007-03-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139462393 |
This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with resources for independent research through the 'Where next?' sections at the end of each chapter. The book draws on scholarship without being overwhelmed by it, and unlike other introductory guides to Shakespeare it emphasizes that there is space for new and fresh thinking by students and readers, even on the most-studied and familiar plays.
| 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 | : Pericles Lewis |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2007-05-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521828090 |
| 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 | : 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 | : 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.
