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Running to Paradise - Yeats's Poetic Art (Paperback, New Ed)
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Running to Paradise - Yeats's Poetic Art (Paperback, New Ed)
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In Running to Paradise, M.L. Rosenthal, hailed by the Times
Literary Supplement as "one of the most important critics of
twentieth-century poetry," leads us through the lyric poetry and
poetic drama of our century's greatest poet in English. His
readings shed new, vivid light on Yeats's daring uses of tradition,
his love poetry, and the way he faced the often tragic realities of
revolution and civil war. Running to Paradise describes Yeats's
whole effort--sometimes leavened by wild humor--to convey, with
high poetic integrity, his passionate sense of his own life and of
his chaotic era.
Himself a noted poet, Rosenthal stresses Yeats's artistry and
psychological candor. The book ranges from his early exquisite
lyrical poems and folklore-rooted plays, through the
tougher-minded, more confessional mature work (including the
sublime achievement of The Tower), and then to the sometimes "mad"
yet often brilliant tragic or comic writing of his last years.
Quoting extensively from Yeats, Rosenthal charts the gathering
force with which the poet confronted his major life-issues: his
art's demands, his persistent but hopeless love for one woman, the
complexities of marriage to another woman at age 52, and his
distress during Ireland's "Troubles." Yeats's deep absorption in
female sensibility, in the cycles of history and human thought, and
in supernaturalism and "the dead" comes strongly into play as well.
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