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The Cambridge companion to W. B. Yeats /

Contributor(s): Howes, Marjorie Elizabeth [editor] | Kelly, John (John S.) [editor].
Series: Cambridge companions to literature: Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006Description: xvi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0521650895; 9780521650892:; 9780521650892; 0521658861; 9780521658867.Other title: W. B. Yeats.Subject(s): Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation | English poetry -- 19th century -- 20th century -- Criticism | English drama -- 20th century -- Criticism | English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticismDDC classification: 809 HOW
Contents:
Chronology of Yeats life. -- Introduction / Marjorie Howes. -- Yeats and romanticism / George Bornstein. -- Yeats, Victorianism, and the 1890s / George Watson. -- Yeats and modernism / Daniel Albright. -- The later poetry / Helen Vendler. -- Yeats and the drama / Bernard O'Donoghue. -- Yeats and criticism / Declan Kiberd. -- Yeats, folklore, and Irish legend / James Pethica. -- Yeats and the occult / Margaret Mills Harper. -- Yeats and gender / Elizabeth Butler Cullingford. -- Yeats and politics / Jonathan Allison. -- Yeats and the postcolonial / Marjorie Howes.
Summary: The essays in this volume explain Yeats's lifelong engagement with Ireland, his complicated relationship to the English literary tradition, his literary, social, and political criticism and the evolution of his complex spiritual and religious sense.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-231) and index.

Chronology of Yeats life. -- Introduction / Marjorie Howes. -- Yeats and romanticism / George Bornstein. -- Yeats, Victorianism, and the 1890s / George Watson. -- Yeats and modernism / Daniel Albright. -- The later poetry / Helen Vendler. -- Yeats and the drama / Bernard O'Donoghue. -- Yeats and criticism / Declan Kiberd. -- Yeats, folklore, and Irish legend / James Pethica. -- Yeats and the occult / Margaret Mills Harper. -- Yeats and gender / Elizabeth Butler Cullingford. -- Yeats and politics / Jonathan Allison. -- Yeats and the postcolonial / Marjorie Howes.

The essays in this volume explain Yeats's lifelong engagement with Ireland, his complicated relationship to the English literary tradition, his literary, social, and political criticism and the evolution of his complex spiritual and religious sense.

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