W.B.Yeats (Writers & Their Work)

by EdwardLarrissy (Author)

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  1996

  $3.29

  In line with a major tendency in post-colonial criticism, this study assumes the value of cultural and historical studies but also makes use of notions of difference derived from the work of Derrida. Irish writing, including the poetry of Yeats, is increasingly seen in a post-colonial perspective. In the case of Yeats, this has meant coming to terms with the implications of his Anglo-Irish Protestant background. This led to his sense of alienation from unity with Ireland and its ancient traditions. But it also led to a compensatory drive towards a revival of Irish culture which Yeats believed an Anglo-Irish Protestant was especially qualified to create. This study shows how Yeats moves from an identification with Ireland in his early work, through a period in which he re-emphasises his Anglo-Irish inheritance and its difference from that of Catholics, to a new sense of unity in his later work, founded on the belief that the Gaelic and Anglo-Irish aristocracies were fundamentally at one. Effects of d
  

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  Paperback
  1997

  $14.42

  This one-volume selection of Yeats's work includes plays, criticism, and other prose writings as well as poems. As a result it offers a perspective on the connectedness of Yeats's literary output, showing how his aesthetic, spiritual, and political development was reflected in everything he wrote. W.B. Yeats was born in 1865, only 38 years after the death of William Blake, and died in 1939, the contemporary of Ezra Pound and James Joyce. His career spanned two centuries and this anthology represents the full range of his achievement, from the Romantic early poems of Crossways and the symbolist masterpiece The Wind Among the Reeds to Last Poems . Myth and folk-tale influence both his poems and his plays, represented here by Cathleen Ni Houlihan and Deirdre , among others. In his critical essays Yeats expounds his idiosyncratic magical symbolism and a selection of occult writings further explores the profound importance of the spirit world to his life and work. Political speeches, autobiographical writings, and a selection of letters complete the edition.