The Cambridge Introduction To W B Yeats
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The Cambridge Introduction to W.B. Yeats
Author: David Holdeman
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2006-09-14
This introduction to one of the twentieth century's most important writers examines Yeats's poems, plays and stories in relation to biographical, literary, and historical contexts. Yeats wrote with passion and eloquence about personal disappointments, his obsession with Ireland, and the modern era's loss of faith in traditional beliefs about art, religion, empire, social class, gender and sex. His works uniquely reflect the gradual transition from Victorian aestheticism to the modernism of Pound, Eliot and Joyce. This is the first introductory study to consider his work in all genres in light of the latest biographies, new editions of his letters and manuscripts, and recent accounts by feminist and postcolonial critics. While using this introduction, students will have instant access to the world of current Yeats scholarship as well as being provided with the essential facts about his life and literary career and suggestions for further reading.
The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats
Author: Marjorie Elizabeth Howes
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2006-05-25
A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major themes of this important poet's life and career.
The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats
Author: Marjorie Howes
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2006-05-25
This accessible and thought-provoking Companion is designed to help students experience the pleasures and challenges offered by one of the twentieth century's greatest poets. A team of international contributors examine Yeats's poetry, drama and prose in their historical and national contexts. The essays explain and synthesise major aspects and themes of his life and work: his 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. First-time readers of Yeats as well as more advanced scholars will welcome this comprehensive account of Yeats's career with its useful chronological outline and survey of the most important trends in Yeats scholarship. Taken as a whole, this Companion comprises an essential introduction for students and teachers of Yeats.