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The Last Minstrels - Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts (Paperback)
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The Last Minstrels - Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts (Paperback)
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Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming
preoccupation of W. B. Yeats's literary life and the most integral
to his poetry and drama, Ronald Schuchard's The Last Minstrels
provides an historical, biographical, and critical reconstruction
of the poet's lifelong attempt to restore an oral tradition by
reviving the bardic arts of chanting and musical speech. From the
beginning of his career Yeats was determined to return the 'living
voice' of the poet from exile to the centre of culture - on its
platforms, stages, and streets - thereby establishing a spiritual
democracy in the arts for the non-reading as well as the reading
public.
Schuchard's study enhances our understanding of Yeats's cultural
nationalism, his aims for the Abbey Theatre, and his dynamic place
in a complex of interrelated arts in London and Dublin. With a
wealth of new archival materials, the narrative intervenes in
literary history to show the attempts of Yeats and Florence Farr to
take the 'new art' of chanting to Great Britain, America, and
Europe, and it reveals for the first time the influence of their
auditory poetics on the visual paradigm of the Imagists. The
penultimate chapter examines the adjustments Yeats made for his
movement during the war, including chanting and other adaptations
from Noh drama for his dance plays and choruses, until the practice
of his 'unfashionable art' became dormant in the 1920s before the
restless rise of realism. The final chapter resurrects his heroic
effort in the 1930s to reunite poetry and music and reconstitute
his dream of a spiritual democracy through the medium of public
broadcasting.
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