| Description |
x, 258 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- Pt. I. Prolegomena to a Yeatsian Metaphysics -- 2. Mercury Sublimate: Gender, revolution and the Burkean sublime -- 3. The Smell of the Fire: Kant, aesthetics, morality and culture -- 4. Night or Joy: Yeats, the negative and positive sublime -- Pt. II. Ascending Breathless Starlit Air: The Beautiful and the Positive Sublime -- 5. Eternal Beauty: Early transcendental aesthetics -- 6. The Labour to be Beautiful: Constructing an aesthetic -- 7. Living Beauty: Aesthetic accommodation of history and society -- 8. The Language of Illusion: A Vision and the transcendental -- Pt. III. A Dancer Wound in His Own Entrails: The Negative Sublime -- 9. The Frivolous Eye: Yeatsian epiphany and the violence of God -- 10. Desire and the Fascist Dream: Destructive/creative violence in society -- 11. Heart's Victim and its Torturer: Wounds of the subject-object mystery -- Pt. IV. Whence Did All That Fury Come? -- 12. Starlit Air: The positive sublime |
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13. The Stream that's Roaring by: The tragedy of history -- 14. Moving upon Silence: Alternating visions of sublimity |
| Summary |
"Those Mingled Seas: The Poetry of W.B. Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime is a study of Yeats's ideas of art, history and culture. Through a combination of philosophy, literary theory, and close attention to poetic forms, Jefferson Holdridge links the most vital, daring aspects of Yeats's poetry and thought to contemporary issues of morality, politics and sexuality. This book, as elegant as it is audacious, will be central to the future of Yeats criticism."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references pages [237]-244) and index |
| Subject |
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Poetic works.
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Aesthetics.
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Sublime, The, in literature.
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| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104923
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| LC no. |
00341074 |
| ISBN |
1900621355 |
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1900621347 paperback |
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