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W. B. Yeats (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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W. B. Yeats (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Writers and Their Work
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Contemporary scholarship about W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is
increasingly clear about the implications of his being a
nationalist from a Protestant background. He always felt a degree
of distance from his Catholic compatriots, while at the same time
believing that his own background offered him relative freedom to
interpret Ireland s pre-Christian traditions and mythology. This
study shows how Yeats moved from passionate identification with the
idea of Ireland in his early work, through a period in which he
re-emphasises his Anglo-Irish inheritance and its difference from
that of Catholics, to a new sense of unity in his later work,
founded on the belief that the Gaelic and the Anglo-Irish
aristocracies were fundamentally alike. Effects of indecision and
provisionality in the writing are intimately bound up with this
ambivalent sense of identity, as are aesthetic doctrines such as
that of the Mask. In line with recent scholarship, this study also
treats Yeats s occult researches as important for understanding the
poetry, and as possessing political significance. Other topics
addressed include the concept of the nation, representations of
gender, and Orientalism, as well as those questions of style and
form which underlie the extraordinary esteem in which Yeats s
poetry is still held by poets and readers of the twenty-first
century."
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