Title Imagining Ireland in the poems and plays of W.B. Yeats : nation, class, and state / Anthony Bradley

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (266 pages) Series New directions in Irish and Irish-American literature New directions in Irish and Irish American literature. Contents "Romantic Ireland": Early Poems and Plays *€Nation and Class in Responsibilities *€History, Gender, Modernism: The Wild Swans at Coole and Michael Robartes and the Dancer *€Modernism, Irishness, and the Postcolonial State: The Tower and The Winding Stair *€A Return to Origins: New Poems and Last Poems Machine generated contents note: -- "Romantic Ireland": Early Poems and Plays *Nation and Class in Responsibilities * History, Gender, Modernism: The Wild Swans at Coole and Michael Robartes and the Dancer * Modernism, Irishness, and the Postcolonial State: The Tower and The Winding Stair * A Return to Origins: New Poems and Last Poems Summary "An important part of the Irish national imaginary, Yeat's poems and plays have helped to invent the nation of Ireland, while critiquing the modern Irish state that emerged from the nation's revolutionary period. This study offers a chronological account of Yeat's volumes of poetry, contextualizing and analyzing them in light of Irish cultural and political history."-- Provided by publisher "This book offers a lucid and comprehensive account of Yeats's poems, volume by volume, in the context of Ireland's period of decolonization, from the late nineteenth century through the 1930s. The connections between Yeats's writing and politics are explored in the light of contemporary theories of nationalism and modernism. Yeats imagined revolutionary Ireland in both Romantic and Modernist modes, as a nation struggling to come into being, and as the center of apocalyptic fragmentation. His mastery and extension of the traditional forms of verse, from ballad and sonnet to modernist sequence or constellation, gives aesthetic shape to the preoccupations of nation and cultural crisis. This well-written analysis of Yeats's poetry and drama also introduces readers to the major scholarship on Yeats"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Political and social views Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 fast Yeats, William Butler 1865-1939 gnd Yeats, William Butler. idszbz Yeats, William Butler, 1865-1939 -- analys och tolkning. sao Yeats, William Butler, 1865-1939 -- politiska och sociala åsikter. sao Subject Politics and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century Politics and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century Nationalism and literature -- Ireland -- History Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland Literary studies: poetry & poets -- English -- Ireland. Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English -- Ireland. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature. Literature Modernism (Literature) Nationalism and literature Political and social views Politics and literature Irland Motiv Motiv. Litteratur och politik -- historia -- Irland -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet. SUBJECT Ireland -- In literature Subject Ireland Irland. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230119543 0230119549 1349532215 9781349532216

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