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Our Secret Discipline

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674026950

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The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of ones quarrels with others while poetry is the expression of ones quarrel with oneself. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poets mind.

Our Secret Discipline

Author : Helen Vendler,A Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674026957

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Our Secret Discipline by Helen Vendler,A Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler Pdf

Presents an examination of lyric form in the poetry of W. B. Yeats.

The Breaking of Style

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0674081218

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Vendler's masterful study of changes in style yields a new view of the interplay of moral, emotional, and intellectual forces in a poet's work. Throughout, Vendler reminds us that what distinguishes successful poetry is a mastery of language at all levels--including the rhythmic, the grammatical, and the graphic.

The Living Stream

Author : Warwick Gould
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781909254350

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Memories of the man are shared by Seamus Heaney, Christopher Rush and Colin Smythe, who compiles a bibliography of Jeffares’s work. Terence Brown, Neil Corcoran, Warwick Gould, Joseph M. Hassett, Phillip L. Marcus, Ann Saddlemyer, Ronald Schuchard, Deirdre Toomey and Helen Vendler offer essays on such topics as Yeats and the Colours of Poetry, Yeats’s Shakespeare, Yeats and Seamus Heaney, Lacrimae Rerum and Tragic Joy, Raftery’s work on Yeats’s Thoor Ballylee, Edmund Dulac’s portrait of Mrs George Yeats, The Tower as an anti-Modernist monument, with close studies of ‘Vacillation’, ‘Her Triumph’, and ‘The Cold Heaven’. Throughout, the essays are inflected with memories of Jeffares and his critical methods. The volume is rounded with further essays on A Vision by Neil Mann and Matthew de Forrest, while reviews of recent editions and studies are provided by Matthew Campbell, Wayne K. Chapman, Sandra Clark, Denis Donoghue, Nicholas Grene, Joseph M. Hassett, and K.P.S. Jochum. Yeats Annual is published by Open Book Publishers in association with the Institute of English Studies, University of London.

Revisionary Play

Author : Harry Berger (Jr.)
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520071808

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"What critic of Spenser's poetry does not know, and acknowledge, a debt to Harry Berger? The collection, at last, of these seminal essays into a single volume is welcome news indeed for the generation of scholars who learned from them and can now more easily send their own students to them. . . . Their importance as documents of the discovery of Spenser, and the Spenserian mode, in the 1960s is given new prominence, moreover, by Berger's recent essays here on the 'metapastoralism' of The Shepheardes Calendar. In them, this New Critic comes home again to Spenser, recognizing the value of recent critical trends but arguing passionately for the centrality of the close reading of text. The result is a powerful case for reconciliation and consolidation of methods that have dominated literary study over the second half of this century."--Donald Cheney, co-editor of The Spenser Encyclopedia

Poets Thinking

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780674044623

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Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be followed by rethinking, Dickinson experimenting with plot to characterize life's unfolding, and Yeats thinking in images, using montage in lieu of argument. With customary lucidity and spirit, Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Her work argues against the reduction of poetry to its (frequently well-worn) themes and demonstrates, instead, that there is always in admirable poetry a strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original.

A Sacerdotal Poetics

Author : Kathryn Wills
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666708288

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A Sacerdotal Poetics by Kathryn Wills Pdf

This book offers a new way of understanding the old conflict between iconophiles and iconoclasts by exploring the way images in poetry are used by one poet, W. B. Yeats, and his translator, Yves Bonnefoy. Using the phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion as a tool of interpretation, the book suggests further that translation is a significant act in which one entire theological world of a Protestant poet may become a completely different, Catholic one when the translation is performed by a culturally Catholic poet. For Bonnefoy, therefore, the act of translation becomes a profound act of hope.

Soul Says

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674821475

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This work comprises essays on American, British and Irish poetry, showing contemporary life and culture captured in lyric form. It explains the power of poetry as the voice of the soul, rather than the socially marked self, speaking directly through the stylization of verse.

Sweet Days of Discipline

Author : Fleur Jaeggy
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811229043

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Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy Pdf

On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks’ consummate translation (with its “spare, haunting quality of a prose poem,” TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.

W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise

Author : Sean Pryor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317000754

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W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise by Sean Pryor Pdf

Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Yeats and Pound define poetry in terms of paradise and paradise in terms of poetry, Pryor suggests, and these complex interconnections fundamentally shape the development of their art. Even as he maps the shared influences and intellectual interests of Yeats and Pound, and highlights those moments when their poetic theories converge, Pryor's discussion of their poems' profound formal and conceptual differences uncovers the distinctive ways each writer imagines the divine, the good, the beautiful, or the satisfaction of desire. Throughout his study, Pryor argues that Yeats and Pound reconceive the quest for paradise as a quest for a new kind of poetry, a journey that Pryor traces by analysing unpublished manuscript drafts and newly published drafts that have received little attention. For Yeats and Pound, the journey towards a paradisal poetic becomes a never-ending quest, at once self-defeating and self-fulfilling - a formulation that has implications not only for the work of these two poets but for the study of modernist literature.

Romantic Shades and Shadows

Author : Susan J. Wolfson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421425542

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Romantic Shades and Shadows by Susan J. Wolfson Pdf

Setting the stage: apparitions of writing -- Shades of Will + words + worth: what's in a name? -- Hazlitt's conjurings: first acquaintance & "quaint allusion" -- Shelley's phantoms of the future in 1819 -- Me and my shadows: Byron's Company of ghosts -- Shades of relay: Yeats's latent Keats / Keats's latent Yeats -- After wording: writing of apparitions

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets

Author : Gerald Dawe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108420358

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A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

W. B. Yeats and the Language of Sculpture

Author : Jack Quin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Art and literature
ISBN : 9780192843159

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W. B. Yeats and the Language of Sculpture by Jack Quin Pdf

This book comprehensively examines the relationship between literature and sculpture in the work of W. B. Yeats, drawing on extensive archival research to offer revelatory new readings of the poet. The book traces Yeats's literary and critical engagement with Celtic Revival statuary, publicmonuments in Dublin, the coin designs of the Irish Free State, abstract sculpture by the Vorticists and modernists, and a variety of carvings, decorative sculptures, and objets d'art. By charting Yeats's early art school education in Dublin, his attempts to raise funds for public monuments in thecity, and to secure commissions for his favourite sculptors, the book documents a lifelong interest in the plastic arts. New and original readings of Yeats's poetry, drama, and prose criticism emerge from this concertedly inter-arts and interdisciplinary study.

The Sonnet

Author : Stephen Regan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192573759

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The Sonnet by Stephen Regan Pdf

The Sonnet provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, and still used centuries later by poets such as Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison, and Carol Ann Duffy. This book traces the development of the sonnet from its origins in medieval Italy to its widespread acceptance in modern Britain, Ireland, and America. It shows how the sonnet emerges from the aristocratic courtly centres of Renaissance Europe and gradually becomes the chosen form of radical political poets such as Milton. The book draws on detailed critical analysis of some of the best-known sonnets written in English to explain how the sonnet functions as a poetic form, and it argues that the flexibility and versatility of the sonnet have given it a special place in literary history and tradition.

Reframing Yeats

Author : Charles I. Armstrong
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441139719

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Reframing Yeats, the first critical study of its kind, uses a focus on genre and allusion to engage with a broad range of W. B. Yeats's writings, examining instances of his poetry, autobiographical writings, criticism, and drama. Identifying a schism in recent Yeatsian criticism between biographical and formalist methodologies, Armstrong's study combines an historicist perspective with close attention to literary form. The result is a flexible approach that casts new light on how Yeats's texts interact with their interpretative frameworks. Cognizant of both literary and political history, this book presents new interpretations of Yeats's work. Not only does it provide fresh readings of texts such as "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited,†? "Among School Children†? and "The Resurrection", but it also raises important new questions concerning Yeats's relationship to Modernism and literary genre.