Words alone : Yeats and his inheritances /
By: Foster, R. F
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Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011Description: xix, 236 p. : ill. : 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199592166; 9780199592166:; 0199592160.Subject(s): Yeats, William Butler | Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation | English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism | Ireland -- Literature -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 809 Summary: Yeats is usually seen as a great modernist innovator. This book goes against the grain to explore the Irish literary traditions that preceded and influenced him - romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemic of the Young Ireland movement, the occult novels of Sheridan LeFanu, and William Carleton's 'peasant fictions'.
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 809 FOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0075969 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Yeats is usually seen as a great modernist innovator. This book goes against the grain to explore the Irish literary traditions that preceded and influenced him - romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemic of the Young Ireland movement, the occult novels of Sheridan LeFanu, and William Carleton's 'peasant fictions'.