| Description |
xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Critical Constitution of the Book -- Theoretical and Textual Issues -- Early Searchings and Irresolutions -- "The Wanderings of Oisin" (1889) -- Crossways (1889) -- The Rose (1893) -- The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) -- "The Old Age of Queen Maeve" (1903) -- "Baile and Aillinn" (1903) -- Crises of Love and Responsibility -- In the Seven Woods (1904) -- The Shadowy Waters (1906) -- The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) -- Responsibilities (1914) -- The Pressure of Events and Growing Antithetical Power -- The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) -- Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) -- Views from the Tower -- The Tower (1928): First Return -- The Tower (1928): Second Return -- Antithetical Oscillation -- "The Winding Stair" (1933) -- "Words for Music Perhaps" -- "A Woman Young and Old" -- ["Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems"] (1935) -- "Supernatural Songs" -- Tragic Joy and Its Discontents -- New Poems (1938) -- The Spiritual Intellect's Great Work -- [Last Poems] (1938-1939) |
| Summary |
In this most ambitious work on Yeats in two decades, Hazard Adams undertakes a study of all of the poems Yeats wished to include in his volume of collected poetry, and he reveals a canon carefully constructed to tell a dramatic-mimetic story. Not only in the poems, but in the spaces between, Adams finds the created life of the fictive poet named Yeats--shaped, over the years, as the author Yeats revised and ordered his poems to tell this story. Many have commented on the significance of the order of Yeats's poems, but Adams's is the first sustained, detailed study articularing this significance poem by poem for all of the poet's work. While providing a comprehensive, insightful reading of the poems, Adams's commentary is always thoroughly informed by the current theoretical, critical, and scholarly debates surrounding both the text of Yeats's poems and the nature of textuality itself. At all points accessible and persuasive, The Book of Yeats's Poems is a work of immediate importance for students of Yeats, of theory, and of modernism |
| Analysis |
Yeats, W.B (William Butler) 1865-1939 Criticism and interpretation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. fast (OCoLC)fst00029120 |
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Yeats, William Butler 1865-1939 gnd |
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Yeats, William B. swd |
| Subject |
Lyrik
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Poetry.
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| LC no. |
89034576 |
| ISBN |
0813009448 |
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9780813009445 |
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0813009510 |
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9780813009513 |
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