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Yeats's Poetry and Poetics (Hardcover)
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Yeats's Poetry and Poetics (Hardcover)
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Yeats's Poetry and Poetics brings together some of the finest Yeats
criticism ever published, together with some new pieces specially
written for this volume. Spanning the whole of Yeats's career, the
essays are organised into three main parts. The first deals with
Yeats's concern with the speaking voice and its bearing on public
and private readings of his verse; and on hisuse of certain kinds
of images in his poetry and plays, from ghosts and fairies, to
figures borrowed from painters and sculptors and, extraordinarily,
to the actual dancer for whom he makes room in his work. The second
section puts Yeats's poetry in context with the work of Synge, D.H.
Lawrence, Walter de la Mare and other 'Georgians', and with that of
T.S. Eliot and other modernists; assessing the continuities (real
and asserted) in Yeats's long poetic career against the revolutions
in the poetry of his time. The profound connections between the
writings of Yeats and Joyce, including the coupling of Finnegans's
Wake and 'The Wanderings of Oisin' are also examined. Rounding off
the volume 'Phantasmagoria', explores the implications for his
poetics of Yeats's spiritualist philosophy, especially in terms of
his co
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