The Critical Thought Of W B Yeats

Author : Wit Pietrzak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319600893
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Critical Thought of W. B. Yeats written by Wit Pietrzak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on W. B. Yeats’s critical writings, an aspect of his oeuvre which has been given limited treatment so far. It traces his critical work from his earliest articles, through to his occult treatises, and all the way to his last pamphlets, in which he sought to delineate the idea of a literary culture: a community of people willing to credit poetry with the central role in imagining and organising social praxis throughout society. The chapters of this study investigate the contexts in which Yeats’s thought developed, his many disputes over the shape of Irish cultural politics, the future of poetry and the place literature occupies in the world. What transpires is an image of Yeats who is strung between the impulses of faith in the existence of a supernatural order and ironic scepticism as to the possibility of ever capturing that order in language. This study is distinguished by its grounding of Yeats's critical agenda in a broader context through textual analysis. In addition, it organises and systematises his conceptions of poetry and its social role through its approach to his criticism as a fully-fledged area of his artistic practice. The monograph has been written within the framework of the project financed by The National Science Centre, Cracow, Poland, pursuant to the decision number DEC-2013/09/D/HS2/02782.

Author : Norman A. Jeffares
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136212310
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book W.B. Yeats written by Norman A. Jeffares and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Author : Forrest Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book W.B. Yeats written by Forrest Reid and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Balachandra Rajan
Publisher : London : Hutchinson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book W.B. Yeats: a Critical Introduction written by Balachandra Rajan and published by London : Hutchinson. This book was released on 1969 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amy Geraldine Stock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book W.B. Yeats written by Amy Geraldine Stock and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David A. Ross
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438126921
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Companion to William Butler Yeats written by David A. Ross and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and writings of William Butler Yeats, including a biographical sketch, detailed synopses of his works, social and historical influences, and more.

Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192842831
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Major Works written by William Butler Yeats and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by plays, critical writings, and letters - to give theessence of his work and thinking.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 crossed two centuries, and this volume represents the full range of his achievement, from the Romantic early poems of Crossways and thesymbolist masterpiece The Wind Among the Reeds to his last poems. Myth and folk-tale influence both his poems and his plays, represented here by Cathleen ni Houlihan and Deirdre among others. The importance of the spirit world to his life and work is evident in his critical essays and occultwritings, and the anthology also contains political speeches, autobiographical writings, and a selection of his letters.This one-volume collection of poems and prose offers a unique perspective on the connectedness of Yeats's literary output, showing how his aesthetic, spiritual, and political development was reflected in everything he wrote.

Author : Stan Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389209034
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book W.B. Yeats written by Stan Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1990 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original, yet lucid and accessible introduction to the often difficult poetry of W.B. Yeats. No poet in this century has shaped his work so directly out of reaction to the history of his times. Yeats's antithetical vision, his fascination with conflict, energy, turbulence and the bodiliness of being, his sense of poetry as a dramatic process, indicate how closely bound up are the stylistic and the thematic dimensions of his art. As a poet of carnality as much as of politics, Yeats is unexcelled. The aim of this book is to show what an exciting writer he is, to reveal the relevance and contemporaneity of his work, even in its more esoteric aspects, and to make its study less intimidating than it can sometimes seem.

Author : Terence Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631182985
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of W. B. Yeats written by Terence Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2000-01-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as public figure.

Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416556879
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays written by William Butler Yeats and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume IV: Early Essays is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars George Bornstein and George Mills Harper. These volumes include virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts with extensive explanatory notes. Early Essays, edited by the internationally esteemed Yeats scholars George Bornstein and the late Richard J. Finneran, includes the contents of the two most important collections of Yeats's critical prose, Ideas of Good and Evil(1903) and The Cutting of an Agate(1912, 1919). Among the seminal essays are considerations of Blake, Shakespeare, Shelley, Spenser, and Synge, as well as an extended discussion of the Japanese Noh theatre. The first scholarly edition of these materials, Early Essays offers a corrected text and detailed annotation of all allusions. Several appendices gather materials from early printings which were later excluded, as well as illuminating black-and-white illustrations. Early Essays is an essential sourcebook for understanding Yeats's career as both writer and literary critic, and for the development of modern poetry and criticism. Here, Yeats works out many of his key ideas on poetry, politics, and the theater. He gives interpretations of writers critical to his development and presents a compelling vision of Ireland and the modern world during the last decade of the nineteenth century and first two decades of the twentieth. As T. S. Eliot remarked, Yeats "was one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them." This volume displays a crucial part of that history.