Yeats and Modern Poetry
Scholars and critics commonly align W.B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats's presence and influence in modern poetry have been sorely misunderstood. Longley disputes the value of modernist critical paradigms and suggests alternative perspectives for interpreting Yeats - perspectives based on his own criticism, and on how Ireland shaped both his criticism and his poetry. Close read…
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- Full title :Yeats and Modern Poetry / Edna Longley, Queen's University, Belfast.
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Scholars and critics commonly align W.B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats's presence and influence in modern poetry have been sorely misunderstood. Longley disputes the value of modernist critical paradigms and suggests alternative perspectives for interpreting Yeats - perspectives based on his own criticism, and on how Ireland shaped both his criticism and his poetry. Close readings of particular poems focus on structure, demonstrating how radically Yeats's approach to poetic form differs from that of Pound and Eliot. Longley discusses other twentieth-century poets in relation to Yeats's insistence on tradition, and offers valuable insights into the work of Edward Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Wilfred Owen, Hugh MacDiarmid, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes. Her postscript addresses key issues in contemporary poetry by taking a fresh look at Yeats's enduring legacy.-from back cover.
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- Publication Date:©2014.
- Edition:Second edition
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:xviii, 249 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781107009851, 1107009855, 9781107622333, 1107622336
- oclc:on1301759112
- LC Classification:PR5907
Table of Contents
Ireland as audience: "To write for my own race" -- Yeats and American modernism -- Intricate trees: the survival of symbolism -- "Monstrous familiar images": poetry and war 1914-1923 -- Yeats's other island
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