In "Yeats and Afterwords," contributors articulate W. B. Yeats's
powerful, multilayered sense of belatedness as part of his complex
literary method. They explore how Yeats deliberately positioned
himself at various historical endpoints--of Romanticism, of the
Irish colonial experience, of the Ascendancy, of civilization
itself--and, in doing so, created a distinctively modernist poetics
of iteration capable of registering the experience of finality and
loss. While the crafting of such a poetics remained a constant
throughout Yeats's career, the particular shape it took varied over
time, depending on which lost object Yeats was contemplating. By
tracking these vicissitudes, the volume offers new ways of thinking
about the overarching trajectory of Yeats's poetic engagements.
"Yeats and Afterwords" proceeds in three stages, involving
past-pastness, present-pastness, and future-pastness. The first,
"The Last Romantics," examines how Yeats repeats classic motifs and
verbal formulations from his literary forebears in order to express
the circumscribed cultural options with which he struggles. The
essays in this section often uncover Yeats's relation to sources
and precursors that are surprising or have been relatively
neglected by scholars. The second section, "Yeats and Afterwords,"
looks at how Yeats subjects his own past sentiments, insights, and
styles to critical negation, crafting his own afterwords in various
ways. The last section, "Yeats's Aftertimes," explores how, thanks
to the stature Yeats achieved through its invention, his style of
belatedness itself comes to be reiterated by other writers. Yeats
is a towering figure in literary history, hard to follow and harder
to avoid, and later writers often found themselves producing words
that were, in some sense, his afterwords.
"This is a groundbreaking collection that will have a major impact
on Yeats studies and will be useful for scholars working more
broadly in Irish and modernist studies." --Rob Doggett, SUNY
Geneseo
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